From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <53b26fec.T73FXAYQOVv1dzsG%plan9@utroff.org> References: <53afdd3c.47cLXdSasz+oooTG%plan9@utroff.org> <25F386C6-9DC7-4384-A33B-EA1A7B5F36BC@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> <53b056d2.SeOZ0rD4J/kbDfR9%plan9@utroff.org> <76234a1690c733adb4e8d5ec1deb2c96@ladd.quanstro.net> <53b26fec.T73FXAYQOVv1dzsG%plan9@utroff.org> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:20:36 -0500 Message-ID: From: balaji To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview Topicbox-Message-UUID: fee0e568-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Pierre-Jean wrote: > > Helped by the various answers and a promotion > on a webstore, I've purchased a supermicro x9SCAA > motherboard. > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/X9/X9SCAA.cfm > > That might be working out of the box with one or the other > distribution. I'll make a report here once tested. > I've tried booting from usd cdrom, usb stick both 9labs and 9legacy. it does not recognize them. this is ICH9R that's claimed to be supported. I'm going to try one that has IDE support and ICH9R so it can boot from cdrom and hopefully then recognize the sata chipset, like this one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3210/X7SBi.cfm