> Video: ATI Rage XL > Ethernet: (2) Intel Pro/100 ports > CDROM as master on secondary > Dual Pentium III 933MHz, 1GB ECC RAM > PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse (3 button Logitech)
nice mouse. > ATA and SCSI HDD > > Upon booting the "live CD", I got the following: > > PBS1... > Plan 9 from Bell Labs > ELCR: 0E00 > pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164 > pcirouting: 8086/1229 at pin 1 irq 164 > > Then the system froze. The only way to get out of the hangup was to reset. i'm hoping that there's good news here. while there are many reasons the system can hang at this point, i believe the most common one is a disagreement with intel ide. can you tell me what southbridge this machine has? i believe i've got a fix for ich0-10. i've verified that it works on at least one ich5 and one ich7r machine that were previously broken. (note: ich7-ich10 parts are often ahci capable; i think ahci mode is preferrable anyway.) it's on sources as contrib/sd (for the kernel, see contrib(1)) and contrib/9load-e820 (for 9load). if your non-working machine is pxe capable, you should be able to pxe boot the nonworking machine from the working machine. unfortunately i don't have a how-to-pxe guide. the information is all in the manpages see ndb(8). and you'll need to run ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd. if your having trouble (as i suspect you might with these random and vague hints), please contact me off list. - erik
