It`s possible to install the Plan 9 distribution onto Asus P5Q-Pro motherboard with two SATA HDD drive and a SATA DVD-RAM/±R/±RWdrive with 4 GB memory.
The Plan 9 distribution CDROM assumes the CDROM is connected to D: drive, which is the problem here. Then, connect the drives as SATA1=SATA HDD in my case 500GB Hitachi SATA drive) SATA2= SATA DVD-RAM/±R/±RW Sdrive SATA3= SATA HDD in my case the same as SATA1. First, install the Plan 9 system from the distribution CDROM using IDE Compatible mode. You may see some proble, such as some of the venti parameters are not properly set (mem, bcmem, icmem), so I recommend you to install fossil only first, and then setup venti later. In my case fossil.conf includes a line of fsys main config /dev/sdC0/fossil and venti.conf does two lines of isect /dev/sdC0/isect arenas /dev/sdD1/arenas0. Next, you should change the above lines as fsys main config /dev/sdE0/fossil and isect /dev/sdE0/isect arenas /dev/sdE2/arenas0. of couse you should change the relevant lines in you plan9.ini file. Then, exit the Plan 9 system, and return to the BIOS setting mode. Here, you should change disk configurations to use AHCI mode. this will lead you to SATA mode setupped Plan 9 system. Lastly, I'm not using bloom because it's not fit my system. Kenji
