[9fans] PBSR...EI

[trebol]

Hello,
The new 9atom iso fails for me the same. But if you finish manually the
installation formatting and preparing the 9fat partition, the system boots right
(just as erik said). Also, the annoying "cpu0:spurious interrupt" kernel message
is gone (with the iso's 9pcf and with a 9pccpuf compiled by me), so I spouse
the problem is in 9pccd.

This is the linux's lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/8251 PCI bridge [K8M890/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

Maybe this can be of any use for erik and the people working in 9load and Plan 9's kernel.
For now that is the only thing I can do, test and report... I hope in the future to be of more help.

When I have time I will try installing Plan 9 in the other machine that fails with PBSR...
(an old PentiumIII).

Regards,
trebol.

[erik quanstrom]

Post by trebol
Maybe this can be of any use for erik and the people working in 9load
and Plan 9's kernel. For now that is the only thing I can do, test
and report... I hope in the future to be of more help.

ah, so the issue is that 9load (on the default install cd) and the
non-mp kernel 9pccd have some sort of malfunction. i'm glad you
tracked this down.

there is also the 9atom.nboot cd which uses iplpxe and not 9load.
there have been reports of issues with this install method, but it
might be worth a shot. this install should support usb.

also,

Post by trebol
This is the linux's lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA

for future reference, pci(8) output is preferred if plan 9 is
already booting. :-)

- erik

[l***@proxima.alt.za]

Post by erik quanstrom
ah, so the issue is that 9load (on the default install cd) and the
non-mp kernel 9pccd have some sort of malfunction. i'm glad you
tracked this down.

Yes, I noted a similar message:

PBS...EI

(unless my memory fails me) even using the Bell Labs release on
VMware, so I reverted to the most recent bootable disk I could find.

I don't know when the problem started, it's been a long time since a
booted from a CD.

++L

[erik quanstrom]

PBS...EI
(unless my memory fails me) even using the Bell Labs release on
VMware, so I reverted to the most recent bootable disk I could find.
I don't know when the problem started, it's been a long time since a
booted from a CD.

totally seperate issue. i've only seen the 9atom issue with via chipsets.

- erik