Steve Simon wrote:
I have been playing with an 2004 vintage P4 machine which
similarly hangs at probing floppy... but after a long time,
perhaps 30 secs it continues.
Have you tried waiting for this long?
Have you tried Erik's alternative distribution:
ftp://ftp.quanstro.net/other/plan9.iso.bz2
It has subtly different drivers and might suit your machine better.
-Steve
The same behaviour of Advantech pc6773 (an industrial PC board) when there
are enabled floppy ports with no drive connected (or correctly powered).
Disabling the port(s) in the BIOS or connecting drive(s) avoid the 9load
delay.
adriano
