maybe try the 9front project On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <[email protected]> wrote: > > It gets stranger. The DVD boots, but the stage1 loader enumerates > all the disks (sdE[0-3] sdF[01]) and for each it complains > > dosinit: can't open #S/sdXX/plan9 > > The sdF[01] devices are the two internal drives. I'm not sure why > it sees four sdE* devices as there is only one USB DVD drive attached > (assuming sdE* is referring to the DVD -- that part of the device > enumeration scrolls off the screen before I can read it). > > I'm starting to think the problem is Supermicro's lame BIOS. They > always seem to do the least amount of work they can, and we've run > into their braindamage before. > > I guess the next step is to try to get 9legacy installed as a VM, > and then try using that to bootstrap a network install. > > I really wasn't looking for a project ... :-P > > --lyndon
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