[9fans] PBSR...EI

[John Floren]

I've been trying to install Plan 9 on a previously-untried system.
When I put in the install disc and try to boot, I only see "PBSR...EI"
and then nothing else. I've seen this with the Bell Labs CD and both
9legacy images. I have an old 9atom disc that gets farther, booting
into the actual kernel and getting as far as printing out how much
memory is available and where it is allocated. I have not tried a more
recent 9atom disc yet because it takes too long to download.

Has anyone else run into this? Is it something to do with the new
bootloaders? I've seen it on several other motherboards lately and
don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2
years ago).


John

[erik quanstrom]

Post by John Floren
Has anyone else run into this? Is it something to do with the new
bootloaders? I've seen it on several other motherboards lately and
don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2
years ago).

fwiw, i never saw that with 9load. if you don't mind downloading overnight,
there's a new 9atom. i added cinap's aml interperter to the pc kernel.

- erik

[John Floren]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:52 PM, erik quanstrom

Post by erik quanstrom

Post by John Floren
Has anyone else run into this? Is it something to do with the new
bootloaders? I've seen it on several other motherboards lately and
don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2
years ago).

fwiw, i never saw that with 9load. if you don't mind downloading overnight,
there's a new 9atom. i added cinap's aml interperter to the pc kernel.
- erik

I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half
hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow.

Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind
of harsh to wait 2 hours every time there's an update.


john

[erik quanstrom]

Post by John Floren
I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half
hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow.
Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind
of harsh to wait 2 hours every time there's an update.

the server is willing, but the network is weak. ☺
i'm evaluating some options now. unfortunately, they're
not cheap.

at least the (older) new tcp help out a bit.

- erik

[John Floren]

Post by erik quanstrom

Post by John Floren
I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half
hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow.
Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind
of harsh to wait 2 hours every time there's an update.

the server is willing, but the network is weak. ☺
i'm evaluating some options now. unfortunately, they're
not cheap.
at least the (older) new tcp help out a bit.
- erik

Ok, 9atom gets into the proper Plan 9 kernel but sticks at:

896M memory: 256M kernel data, 639M user, 0M swap

[erik quanstrom]

Post by John Floren
896M memory: 256M kernel data, 639M user, 0M swap

thanks for trying. you can change boot vars from the keyboard.
e.g. (type everything but the tab)

a *nomp=0
a *nousbehci=

unfortunately that first one doesn't work, since mp isn't built
into that kernel.

a few questions:
- what kind of machine is it?
- do you happen to have a screenshot? also,
- does this machine have a ps2 keyboard or serial? if so, does it respond
to keys or ^T^T sequences?


normally the easiest way to debug this is to pxe boot with
various printing junk in the kernel till you've found it.

- erik

[David Arroyo]

the server is willing, but the network is weak. ☺
i'm evaluating some options now. unfortunately, they're
not cheap.

Have you considered using torrent? I'd be happy to seed it and I'm sure
others would too.

David Arroyo

[c***@gmx.de]

http://code.google.com/p/plan9front/source/browse/sys/src/cmd/ip/torrent.c

--
cinap

[andrey mirtchovski]

467: if(mechoking && hewant){

i'll never be able to show this code to my kid :(

[c***@gmx.de]

"choking" is a term from the protocol specification. :)

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cinap - optimistically unchoked