In no particular order. Your help is very much appreciated - still getting my legs on w/ plan 9; I make a real effort not to query the list until I'm at a standstill.
How do I enable hd dma? There's a dmamode=ask in my plan9.ini, but I don't see that option mentioned in the plan9.ini man. I've been running into mention of kfs throughout various rc scripts and whatnot; is kfs simply the default file system for a plan 9 terminal? Where's the boot log located (I looked in /sys/log)? I'm seeing some errors being printed to the console after I specified which user to log in as at the prompt, but those errors vanish too quickly for me to parse. Finally, regarding the errors I just mentioned, they seem to be something along the lines of: "can't initialize venti /dev/scd0/arenas: arena header or trailer corrupted" ... this didn't occur the first time I installed plan 9 on this machine, but since the second time I did a re-install from scratch (for practice). Thanks for all the help!