I'm trying to get my circa 2006 laptop working with Plan 9.
Its a Gateway MX3414 with:

North Bridge: NVIDIA C51MV
South Bridge: MCP51 - ignored
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 graphics - works fine with 1024x768x16 VESA
NVIDIA MCP51 ethernet controller - not detected
NVIDIA MCP51 PATA controller - buggy? see below...

I am using the install CD from June 25th.
Boot messages, kmesg, pci output, and linux lspci output are attached.

There is a pause of 1-2 mins after each of the the
"reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg:off 0x6000000..."
messages are printed to the screen while booting from CD.
Then the startup menu appears. I boot from the CD and do not perform
an install yet.

I also tried booting from Erik's atom iso, but don't get very far. eg:
PBS1
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0CA0
pcirouting: south bridge 10de, 0260 not found
aoepnp(<nil>)
found 11 e820 entries
Boot devices: fd0 fd1
boot from:

It doesn't detect IDE controller, so no local disk/CD-ROM to boot from.

Thanks for any help.  Hopefully something can be worked out.

Jamie