definitive guide to installing plan9 on parallels v3, compile 4124:
note: if you've done this before you need not bother reading the rest, just make sure you say "no" when asked whether you want DMA enabled for your disks. if you say yes then after boot you'll get the following error message: atagenioretry: disabling DMA sdC0: retry: dma 00000 rwm: 0010 and as soon as you get to partdisk an incorrect MBR will be written to disk, causing the machine to fail rebooting from then on (installation will not proceed past "partdisk" either). here are my notes: set up parallels: select "new" for a new image, choose "Other" as the OS select Shared Networking for the network Memory: i stick with 512 Disk: 1Gig (fixed, i don't know how well the resizable disks work) for the machine configuration browse and select plan9.iso as the CD Image installation: boot the machine, you'll be prompt for the kernel, use sdC1: sdC1!cdboot!9pcflop.gz type "no" at the DMA prompt. hit enter at the mouse/vga/monitor prompts, the defaults work fine, although the screen is small at 640x480 :) from then on you should be booted and can proceed with the installation normally, making sure that you install the MBR and that you use the Plan9 partition for booting. use the whole disk, there's no reason not to. the installation completed in less than 30 minutes with DMA off on a MacBook Pro. we still don't know what causes the problems Lucho is seeing with the installation on a MacBook (not Pro). both parallels and the .iso image are fresh from today and identical. cheers: andrey
