Hi, after reading a lot of chip sets I was thinking:
No risk, no fun and bought a very new motherboard. The board is an Asus P5Q SE2 with Intel P45 and ICH10. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=T4T7B10FfR6zJ4Ns&templete=2 Here my results: 1. The installation of Plan 9 is not possible. I found that the Marvell 88se61xx IDE controller is not working. The message: pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI.0.31.0 8086/3A18 could give more information. However: Installation with an normal IDE cdrom is not possible. I will buy a SATA cdrom and try it again. 2. The AHCI-driver works fine and Plan 9 runs like a storm. I have the SATA drive attached to a Sil 3114 controller and put both in an old PIII maschine. Booting and installation of Plan 9 is slow but works fine. After that I connected the drive back to the Asus board and changed the bios settings to AHCI. Then I crossed the fingers and booted. It worked! I am very happy! Now I have a very new fast motherboard with a running Plan 9. I use a nvidia 6200TC videocard. Here I have a problem with the monitor setting. My Acer TTF need 1440 x 900. I changed the plan9.ini to e198wfp as monitor and 1440x900x8 as vgasize. Not a good idea. Now I can see anything. Now my questions: How can I stop starting rc and go to the console? Booting from cdrom is not possible at the moment. Any idea for the setting for my videocard/monitor? Is it right that I can attach a SATA cdrom to the AHCI driver and booting from cdrom works? The ICH10 seems to works in AHCI mode. Are there some test that I can make to verify this? Regards, Wolfgang
