Re: [9fans] Installation Problems

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

Inil is printed by the ATA driver when the interrupt routine is called
but the driver does not have an outstanding request. This is really a debug
message, and is arguably not correct as the interrupt routine can indeed be
called when there is nothing to do if the IRQ used by the ATA controller is
shared with some other device. However, the default IRQs used by the ATA
controller (14 and 15) are seldom shared with anything else. If you have
that situation try to separate the ATA controller onto its own IRQ. E.g.
if it a graphics card you can quite often disable the need for an IRQ in
the BIOS setup, and Plan 9 currently doesn't make use of graphics interrupts.

On Wed Mar 13 05:33:11 EST 2002, eternal_failure@lycos.com wrote:
> Hello.  Recently I found a link to plan-9 and after reading about it for 
> awhile, decided it sounded powerful and worthwhile to experiment with. 
> Unfortunately, I seem to be getting strange error messages during 
> installation.  Before it starts decompressing the filesystem, it leaves 
> a huge string of: "Inil20+Inil20+Inil20+... repeatedly, for a few 
> screens.  after it loaded rio, it all looked good, but after I type in 
> pickdisk, a huge string of Inil20/59+Inil20/59... came up in the middle 
> of the screen in a different font at the top of the screen.  I managed 
> to select the disk, but when asked about the mbr, it printed more of the 
> message covering the entire screen, and I am unable to read whats going 
> on.  Does anyone know what these messages mean?  My system is a Duron 
> 800 on an Asus A7V, 256 megs of ram.  I tested a few video cards and all 
> had thet strange messages, but the only one to get into Rio was a 
> Diamond Stealth 64 2001.  I also have a Netgear FA310TX and SoundBlater 
> AudioPCI which I tried disabling but the errors still came up.  Has 
> anyone had the same problems, or know how to remedy this?  thanks