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 f
> How can I stop starting rc and go to the console? Booting from
> cdrom is not possible at the moment.
alternatively, if you have a network perhaps you could PXE boot the
machine from another host and then mount and edit plan9.ini
-Steve
> 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
the pcirouting message is likely unrelated.
this is probablly a bug in the ahci driver. the ahci driver sho
Hi Steve,
I also have an Asus P5Q motherboard (not "SE2") and an Asus EN6200LE/TC video
card. I have been able to install from a sata dvd+rw drive in both IDE and AHCI
mode, using the sata ports connected to the ICH10R. IDE compatability mode
works with the official distribution, but without dm
>I don't think the on-board network adapter is supported (Atheros
>AR81xx), I use a gigabit intel nic. I haven't really looked at the
>onboard audio, I use an usb sound card.
unfortunately, not (yet) supported.
>I have had some problems using the box as a cpu server, as it would
>freeze up from
>login as none. if you're running a cpu kernel, then use
>drawterm to login as the hostowner.
Works fine. Many thanks!
>
>> Is it right that I can attach a SATA cdrom to the AHCI driver
>> and booting from cdrom works?
>
>yes.
I will order a SATA cdrom.
Regards,
Wolfgang
