I spend this weekend a lot of time in trying to get Plan9 to work on real hardware.
My experience: I started with the plan9.iso. No look so far because the ahci driver seems not to be in the install kernel. 9load seems to find my disks but when I choose 1 (Install Plan9) there is only the CDROM drive there. When I choose 2 (Boot Plan9) the disks are there. I switched then to 9atom because there are a lot of information in this mailing list about 9atom. So boot from cdrom works fine. This time I do not need to switch from sdD0 to sdC0 but the keyboard freeze sometimes. I was using PS/2 keyboard and mouse. So I switched to usb mouse and usb keyboard and all works fine. There was a issue after installation when I compiled the CPU- kernel. This takes about 15 minutes and the maschine had a very hight load. After booting wiht the new CPU kernel I did the compile again and it worked in a few seconds (after a mk clean). I have no idea about this issue but now all seems to be well. Actually I am using a very old AMD motherboard: (ASUS M2A-VM - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2AVM/) because all other boards in my home lab does not worked with plan9. So I would like to ask for a recommendation for an new motherboard? However I am happy to have a plan9 an real hardware now. -Bernd
