From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:36:24 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4F1E660E-5AA0-4CAD-9A0E-07A2F58B2C89@rejaa.com> References: <32de680547f61cd4fa1768ba0db8a518@quintile.net> <546927c17df12add587300b1f280e8cd@ladd.quanstro.net> <648703675.20100410112152@rejaa.com> <15985351.20100410182842@rejaa.com> <4F1E660E-5AA0-4CAD-9A0E-07A2F58B2C89@rejaa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] native install Topicbox-Message-UUID: fec5ddfc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I have it booting now. I did a disk/format using the 9load from > the cdboot image, and the 9pcf kernel from the iso. > Now i'm getting messages about caught missed ide interrupts. . . > and this slows down disk operations a lot, i guess first fossil dump > to venti will take ages. now i'm stuck at version...time line. . . .i'll > try if enabling dma could solve anything, but not sure when i will > be able to access the console. . . > can i enable dma from the plan9.ini? sorry about the "missed ide interrupts" botch. it seemed better than not booting at all. you can set "*sdXXdma=on" in your plan9.ini. but i don't think that's the real problem. i'd guess that your southbridge isn't in the list of routable southbridges and needs to be added. but in addition, i would do the following 1. remove the "*nomp=1" line from plan9.ini 2. switch to ahci mode. (assuming this is indeed a sata drive that is connected to the ich sata ports and not some marvell or sis addon chip.) 3. send your pci output offline. - erik