On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:40 PM, erik quanstrom<[email protected]> wrote: >> > judging from past email, i'm guessing that your ide device >> > is 27c4, which was missing from 9load. i put up a corrected cd. >> > if you can ftpfs from your mostly-installed machine and >> > get just 9load.bz2, it's in the same directory. >> > >> > ; i=9atom.iso.bz2 sha1sum $i && ls -l $i >> > cb7bdb9bcaebaf5e54d5a76c672dba52f90eb55a 9atom.iso.bz2 >> > --rw-r--r-- M 176 quanstro quanstro 88211681 Aug 11 17:13 9atom.iso.bz2 >> > >> thanks erik!!! I can now boot. I am now at the >> init starting /bin/rc stage it seems to stall there. I think its >> just the ip/ipconfig issue should be easy to fix. > >> just a note. i am getting >> ide: caught missed irq several times shoul i be concerned? > > what's going on: > i replaced the sleep in sdata.c with a loop that checks for i/o > completion every second. i/o should never be outstanding for > 1 second, so this will never fire unless your disk is very sick, > or you're missing interrupts. after 10 missed irqs, it has mercy > on you and checks every 50ms. this will seem very slow. >
Its very very slow hehehe > the pureists are probablly going to choke at this trick. > i don't blame them. but on the other hand, i want to give > folks a chance to recover their systems if ide acts up. > > this is something to be concerned about. > > once you boot up, there are a number of things to try. > /dev/irqalloc for your kernel should have an extra final > entry that counts the number of interrupts on each vector. > i would expect that number would be 0, given your symptoms. term% cat /dev/irqalloc 3 0 debugpt [0] 7 0 mathemu [0] 8 0 doublefault [0] 9 0 mathover [0] 14 0 fault386 [0] 15 0 unexpected [0] 16 0 matherror [0] 32 0 clock [8298344] 33 1 kbd [103] 38 6 floppy [0] 39 7 lpt [29] 42 10 usbehci [0] 42 10 usbuhci [0] 43 11 sdE (ata) [16869] 43 11 usbuhci [16863] 43 11 usbuhci [16863] 43 11 ether0 [16863] 44 12 kbdaux [2400] 46 14 sdC (ata) [23] > > here are a few things you can look at > - is your southbridge recognized? > not sure how to check this... > - you might want to try turning dma on, on the wild > theory that it worked well enough during installation. updated /rc/bin/cpurc.local to include dmamode=ask rebooting now. > - you might want to try turning mp interrupts on. > unfortunately, i forgot to add the nomp device which > allow one to inspect the mp interrupts before trying > them. plan9.ini already shows *nomp=1 so I guess it's a default. > failing any of those things, send me your pci output. > this setup should work. dont have lspci will install after trying the dmamode. thanks for the patience. -- http://www.fernski.com
