Hi,
I'm going to try this swap enabler thing! Can somebody tell me where
the "swap" program is
and the correct syntax. I suspect I either have to add it to the
floppy or put it in a mountable/
executable place as proposed by Burton.
Once booted from the floppy ...could I remove the floppy and mount
the CD.-ROM in its place?
I'll also be playing with the installer to see if I can't trick the
graphics to work...
Any other tips ie memory probing code ... etc would be helpful.
Thanks for all the feedback!!
Feeling a bit frustrated...
At 05:34 AM 9/18/2006, you wrote:
> I found the plan9.ini on the floppy and added the kernelpercent=20...
> it got up to 25% before
> giving up!
> I found a reference in the archives where another user speculated
> about this error!
> What do you think of the workaround?
I've been chatting with Chuck offlist and it seems the he has the
same problem I had with the Compaq physical memory layout and the
memory probing code that's found in the kernel. Although the
machine has 128M, the kernel can only find 16M and runs out during
the install. It can't seem to boot from CD, but works fine from the
floppy...unfortunately the swap program isn't installed on the
floppy (but is on the CD), so I had to figure out a workaround to
enable swap to perofrm the install.
Basically, I copied the swap program from the plan9 install cd to an
ext2 partition on the same machine, booted from the floppy, mounted
the partition and ran swap from there, which then allowed the
install to happen smoothly. This was after the first out of memory
failure during the initial install, but the install partition had
already been prepared so you could just enable the swap created
during that initial failed install to allow for the second install
to work (simple isn't it ;-)
I played with the memory probing code and I *think* I might have
gotten all my memory recognized by raising the upper address limit
that the probe routine went to. This was a while back, but I did
run plan9 exclusively as my only OS on that machine for about 3
months, and I do remember solving a number of problems (but
unforunately didn't have much net access so I couldn't write about
them at the time).
I put a little bit of a request during my solution (the reference
that Chuck posted) to put the swap program on the install floppy (if
space permits), but I guess that was missed. Maybe this could be a
second request so this workaround doesn't have to confuse new users.
If I recall there was also a problem with the card not having a
listing in vgadb; unfortunately that laptop has since gone to
pasture so I can't even attempt to recall what that was.
Once everything was working, it ran plan9 just great thought :D
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