I'll let it sit for a while and see if it goes anywhere... Is the distribution you linked to anything like 9atom? Trying 9atom seems to be a common suggestion for these issues, so I gave it a shot and it freezes too, though the output is a little bit different. It prints:
PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0E20 pcirouting: 8086/24DB at pin 1 irq 5 cpu0: 2793 MHz Pentium IV/Xeon loop 53571 apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdf9 di=0 ebx=100469 esi=0 found 5 e820 entries ...and then freezes. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > I have been playing with an 2004 vintage P4 machine which > similarly hangs at probing floppy... but after a long time, > perhaps 30 secs it continues. > > Have you tried waiting for this long? > > Have you tried Erik's alternative distribution: > ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/plan9.iso.bz2 > > It has subtly different drivers and might suit your machine better. > > -Steve > >
