From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:43 PDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:24:10 -0700
Message-Id: <20080513212410.E95A55B47@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] running in AMDs simnow
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:55:43 PDT "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>  wrote:
> I'm trying to get plan 9 to boot in AMDs simnow as part of tracking a
> weird problem.
>
> There's some weird issue between simnow and 9load.
>
> Here is what happens, on floppy or iso:
> initial probe, to find plan9.ini...
>
> I then see 661,504 reads (in the case of the ISO) or few number of
> reads (in the case of floppy)
> and then it just hangs, then finally gets exception 6.
	...
> I'm confused, I'm going to try pointing it at the real ide drive next,
> but suggestions are welcome.
>
> Well, besides, 'Give up now", that is.

Depending on what you are trying to do qemu-system-x86_64 may
be an option.  That is what I have been using for a while now.