> From the above, the problem is not an installation that worked before, > and does not anymore, since this is not a Pentium IV anymore but a > Core 2/Xeon. > > Since it loads the floppy image, El Torito is supported. Now, this is > the exploration of the mass storage that seems to pose problems. > > Do your disks have MBR, or GPT or something else (RAID)? > > Are you able to enter a specification for boot from?
the floppy loading and emulation is a bios trick. nothing to do with the boot image itself. the problem is that plan 9 is not detecting the cd drive. this could be for two reasons - the controller is just not supported. if it's not usb, i'd be surprised if it didn't emulate ide or ahci. - unless things have changed recently, the distribution cd won't boot unless your cdrom is on D:. this precludes any ahci and quite a bit of ide-emulating devices. the 9atom cd doesn't have the second problem. it doesn't care where the cd is configured. hth. - erik
