Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like Apple's BIOS emulator doesn't emulate a standard keyboard. > 9load loops forever in i8042init waiting for "a quiescent controller". > > EFI would have to support that via SMM. The bios emulator can't do it v

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Looks like Apple's BIOS emulator doesn't emulate a standard keyboard. 9load loops forever in i8042init waiting for "a quiescent controller". On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU, >

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2008-Apr-18, at 08:35 , Steve Simon wrote: I believe plan9 uns well under parallels. "Flawlessly" would be a more accurate description.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Steve Simon
I believe plan9 uns well under parallels. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Axel Belinfante
> > send the mac to me. I will fix it as I fixed Gorka's mac. > > > > You are always a blessing :-). no macs were harmed in this activity of fixing? :-)

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-18 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:34 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > send the mac to me. I will fix it as I fixed Gorka's mac. > You are always a blessing :-). -- - curiosity sKilled the cat

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> I have one, but unfortunately, Broadcom hardware (remember when I > first joined 9fans)? you can get a realtek 8139 for <$10 or 8169 nic for <$20. you can get a nice intel 82572 pcie card (assuming your pc has it) for $40. a nic shouldn't be an problem, unless you let it be. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread john
> I have one, but unfortunately, Broadcom hardware (remember when I > first joined 9fans)? > > On Apr 17, 2008, at 5:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> On Thu Apr 17 17:19:06 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting. >> >> you know, you could get a pc. >> >> - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting. > send the mac to me. I will fix it as I fixed Gorka's mac. ron

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I have one, but unfortunately, Broadcom hardware (remember when I first joined 9fans)? On Apr 17, 2008, at 5:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: On Thu Apr 17 17:19:06 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting. you know, you could get a pc. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Apr 17 17:19:06 EDT 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting. you know, you could get a pc. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
rEFIT fails me. Back to waiting. On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Anant Narayanan wrote: Does 9load support EFI? A. OS X EFI emulates a BIOS. That's how Boot Camp works. You need to explicitly enable it, and even then it won't work quite right until you get a nice bootloader that chains (muc

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-17 Thread Anant Narayanan
Does 9load support EFI? A. OS X EFI emulates a BIOS. That's how Boot Camp works. You need to explicitly enable it, and even then it won't work quite right until you get a nice bootloader that chains (much like how GRUB does): refit is a good tool: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ -- Anant

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread erik quanstrom
>> OS X EFI emulates a BIOS. That's how Boot Camp works. > > this stuff gets worse and worse, doesn't it. i suppose it does, if you think efi is better than bios. - erik

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread dave . l
The first OS I used a lot was MCP on a Borroughs B6700, which I'm sure some of you have heard of ... I thought that it's stack-based, tagged-memory hardware, self-paging, segmented, unprotected, cactus-stack OS which supported at least 3 character sets and a typed file system with hundreds of fil

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
> OS X EFI emulates a BIOS. That's how Boot Camp works. this stuff gets worse and worse, doesn't it.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Armando Camarero wrote: Pietro Gagliardi escribió: Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU, which Q provides a wrapper for, freezing every time I boot, I decided to try to run Plan 9 on native Mac hardware. I have a December

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread Armando Camarero
Pietro Gagliardi escribió: Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU, which Q provides a wrapper for, freezing every time I boot, I decided to try to run Plan 9 on native Mac hardware. I have a December 2006 iMac with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. When I boot the iM

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread Iruata Souza
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU, > which Q provides a wrapper for, freezing every time I boot, I decided to try > to run Plan 9 on native Mac hardware. I have a December 2006 i

[9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac

2008-04-16 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU, which Q provides a wrapper for, freezing every time I boot, I decided to try to run Plan 9 on native Mac hardware. I have a December 2006 iMac with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. When I boot the iMac from the latest Plan