I ordered a fit-pc recently to replace my old noisy server, and figured I should do the right thing and give plan9 a chance before installing netbsd or somethnig. It has proven a bit awkward to bootstrap with no IDE/floppy slots to plug in to, but eventually I worked out if you plug a usb cd drive in and tell the BIOS there's an IDE Primary slave and to boot from "CDROM" it actually boots from the usb... So I stuck the PLAN 9 - FEB 8 2008 04:01 iso in, and it gets this far:
PBS1...Plan 9 from Bell Labs ELCR: 0E20 And freezes. I also tried to netboot from my existing cpu/auth/file server. The netboot ROM on the ethernet downloads the kernel but couldn't seem to find a spot in memory to put it[1], so I grabbed gPXE 0.9.3 from http://www.etherboot.org/ and built an ISO. The last thing I see there is "Booting from /386/9pc..." and then the machine reboots. I'm not sure if this is even getting the whole kernel... last line in /sys/log/ipboot is: phoenix Feb 26 00:24:43 send file '/386/9pc' octet to 192.168.1.11!1024 THNX might be another option for bootstrap, or at least useful for getting the plan 9 bootloader on the MBR - I have it on a usb stick and got it running with a bit of messing around. Finally, the thing has a serial port, but I don't know how to use those things. Does it sound like this hardware is likely to run plan 9? -sqweek [1] segment [009DC00,009DE00) does not fit in any memory region
