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From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@fer...>
Subject: [9fans] probs installing plan9
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:47:47 GMT

Hi,

I am having some troubles getting plan9 on my old PC.

The thing is an AMD K6/200 (though I also put in a P100 chip to see if it
was a CPU thing) with 64Mb, a 3c590b and a 2Mb S3 virge card in an old TX
mobo.

It boots OK from the floppy, asks me "root is .." and when I hit enter, I
am rewarded with:

cpu0: spurious interrupt 39, last 6

several times (varies from 3 to about a dozen).  Very occasionally that
last "6" is a "0".

Then it announces:

boot: can't read nvram i/o error
boot: bad nvram key: s almost any key to reboot...
boot: bad authentication id: <binary junk>
boot: bad authentication domain: s almost any key to reboot...

and asks for a password.  If I hit return a few times, ignoring the
requests for an authid and authdom, I am rewarded with:

boot: can't write key to nvram: fd out of range or not open

and some more kernel messages, ending with a panic and stack trace.

Do I just have duff hardware, or might something else be wrong?

Matthew.