Wow, so many replies :)

> have you considered running plan 9 from within virtualbox?

I've not tried it yet, since the are a lot mentions that Plan 9 is slow under vb, but I'll try it if nothing helps.

> What are the problems with trying to boot it natively?

As you correctly suggested, my wireless card isn't supported and connecting laptop through the Ethernet cable to my router located in another room is somewhat inconvenient. Also, I'm not sure if my video card (GMA 950 as listed in specs or 945GME as lspci says) works right (uhm, should I try realemu?)

Of course, I'll be glad if I'm wrong with this incompatibilities.

> Have you tried Erik Quanstro's 9atom kernel?

Nope. I'll give it a try. Actually, I've seen 9atom page, but I didn't find any difference in hardware support viable for my notebook. And I didn't understand much on other differences at this moment.

> I haven't had it happen since I upgraded my kernel to 3.1.

Great! I'll upgrade it this evening.

> For the moment, what I do is using tinycore from an usb instead (by

> the way, tc's linux 3.0 works just fine).

Hm, sounds interesting - thanks for suggestion!

> If you are using a modern version of 9vx (rminnich's repository at

> bitbucket) you don't need to copy the contents of the iso, you can
> just run 9vx with -r 9front.iso.

But I will not be able to modify fs, right? On the other hand, I can mount/bind additional / to save changes there (as Jens suggested). Good.

Btw, should I mount the whole / or just some sub-directories?

Thanks for suggestions!

Anton.