I ran into the same error on an OpenBSD machine (qemu version 1.7.0), and obviously that error is a known problem.
However, I was able to boot and install the plan9.iso after moving the cdrom to the slave of the disk's ide. For me, that looked like: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive file=9/Plan9.qcow2.img,if=ide,index=0,media=disk \ -drive file=9/plan9.iso,if=ide,index=1,media=cdrom -boot d Hope that helps Paul Ivanov <[email protected]> schrieb am Mon, 24. Feb 10:09: > Hey gang, > As per the subject, I tried to start playing with plan 9, but > kept running into this error: > dosinit: can't open #S/sdC0/9fat dosinit #S/sdC0/9fat failed > and gives me a `Boot from:` prompt (which I have no idea what to do with) > My boot command was `kvm -cdrom plan9.iso -boot d -hdc > Plan9.qcow2.img`. This is with > QEMU emulator version 1.7.0 (Debian 1.7.0+dfsg-3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 > Fabrice Bellard > Linux HbIOTOH 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 > GNU/Linux > mischief on IRC suggested that I report this finding to the list. > I also saw the same error message trying to boot 9legacy.iso (but > perhaps that factoid should go to another list? forgive my > ignorance). > (I was finally able to get to Rio after getting a 9front.iso) > best,
