On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Nick Owens <misch...@9.offblast.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:03:07PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: >> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan >> <vu3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan >> > <vu3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I downloaded the usbinstamd64 image from the 9atom webpage and booted >> >> it up. First, I tried amd64 (selection 0), in a second or so, some >> >> text went past the screen quickly and the machine rebooted. I then >> >> tried selection 1 (386pae), that booted up but quickly halted with >> >> this: >> >> >> >> Plan 9 >> >> E820: .... >> >> ... >> >> apic: 6 machs started; flat mode vectors >> >> winbont ffff.ff hw fff8 >> >> no capabilities >> >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8 >> >> panic: kernel fault: no user process pc=f0162415 addr=0x000000a8 >> >> dumpstack disabled >> >> cpu0: exiting >> >> cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 0 >> >> >> >> and it hangs there. >> > >> > The mother board is ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3. >> > >> > <http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A89GTD_PROUSB3/> >> >> Also for the record, I also tried the Labs plan9 usb image. That >> didn't go past a few initial prints either. I didn't note them down >> but it was different from the ones reported above with 9atom and >> failed much earlier. >> >> -- >> Ramakrishnan >> > > it appears this motherboard is using usb 3 aka xhci. i don't know for > certain but i don't think any plan 9 (fork or not-a-fork) has xhci > support. looking through the archive, there was talk of xhci about a > year ago. > > try disabling usb 3.0 in the bios setting and see if it makes progress > when booting from usb.
Thanks, I tried disabling usb 3.0 in the bios and I am still getting stuck at the same place with the 9atom image. -- Ramakrishnan