Geoff asked about *noahciload in my plan9.ini; no, it is not set. None of the *no variables are.
Gorka asked about my bios: yes, my bios knows about it. I've not got any of the legacy compatibility stuff turned on, as my initial experiments showed it made them not detected by the kernel, either (although there are several modes, and I didn't try them all). I tried the bios loading (sdB0), but that was unproductive. No example is given, but from the description in the man page I'd expect it to parallel sdC0 and look like sdB0!9fat!9pcf. When 9load(8) says about sdB0 "partitions are understood", I'm assuming it means in the same way sdC0 understands them. What's interesting, though, is that giving it sdC0!cdboot!9pccd.gz has no effect when I use the on-disk 9load, either (which works fine using the one on the cd), with the distributed plan9.ini (which does have some *no variables set). More poking to do.
