[9fans] Plan9 and the real hardware

["Bernd Maier" <bema@hush.com>]

I spend this weekend a lot of time in trying to get Plan9 to work
on real hardware.

My experience:

I started with the plan9.iso. No look so far because the ahci
driver
seems not to be in the install kernel. 9load seems to find my disks

but when I choose 1 (Install Plan9) there is only the CDROM drive
there.
When I choose 2 (Boot Plan9) the disks are there.

I switched then to 9atom because there are a lot of information in
this mailing list about 9atom. So boot from cdrom works fine. This
time I do not need to switch from sdD0 to sdC0 but the keyboard
freeze
sometimes. I was using PS/2 keyboard and mouse. So I switched to
usb
mouse and usb keyboard and all works fine.

There was a issue after installation when I compiled the CPU-
kernel.
This takes about 15 minutes and the maschine had a very hight load.

After booting wiht the new CPU kernel I did the compile again and
it
worked in a few seconds (after a mk clean). I have no idea about
this
issue but now all seems to be well.

Actually I am using a very old AMD motherboard:

 (ASUS M2A-VM - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2AVM/)

because all other boards in my home lab does not worked with plan9.

So I would like to ask for a recommendation for an new motherboard?

However I am happy to have a plan9 an real hardware now.

-Bernd