> It was an MP problem. I had commented out *nomp=1 in my plan9.ini > and after I tried to boot again and saw a number of errors with > mpintreenable and intreenable I put it back in and it booted correctly. > So no MP for this machine for now.
Can you try getting rid of *nomp=1 and setting *msi=1 On the Thinkpad T61, the hard drive is sometimes not detected on the first attempt. After thirty seconds or so it usually succeeds and boots as normal. -sl