From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:08:56 -0600 From: EBo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: References: <3aaafc130911231227x377ef04fr23170a73ce3f72f1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <140d404e3efc1962e7c7e040f34f85d7@swcp.com> User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 doesn't boot on a (fairly new) computer Topicbox-Message-UUID: 403346b2-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:00:32 -0700, Akshat Kumar wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jorden Mauro wrote: >> Here's the hardware: >> >> AMD Athlon II X2 245 (64-bit dual core) >> Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H motherboard >> One 1.5Tb SATA hard drive, old IDE cdrom > > Is there any 64-bit supported Plan 9 kernel? from what I understand no (and I am sure others will correct me if I am wrong). What I can say definitively is that Plan 9 will run on a 64-bit machine when compiled in 32-bit mode. My primary machine has a AMD Phenom II X4. It is one of those cheap Gateway machines, which unfortunately do not give you lots of details of what is under the hood (and I might not have bought it for that if I had fully know up front). So the good news is that you can probably get it to work. The best place to start looking it look at Erik's 9atom boot disk and you might have to play around with the SATA/IDE settings (which on my bios caused lots of problems). The should be a hundred or so posts in the archives dealing with 64-bit machines and booting with 9atom. Hope that helps. EBo --