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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 07:12:20 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305
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> Ok so i'm hearing a lot of "unsupported" here.
> I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot
> devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized.
>
> This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues
> with it too when i installed it but i just kept trying and after a few
> timeouts it worked.
>
> I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing
> so much about from my grandfather. ;)

it's most likely because your ide/sata chipset is not recognized.
if your interested in a solution, the output of lspci -n from linux
or pci from plan 9 would be helpful.

- erik