From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:56 +0900 From: kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [9fans] install onto P5Q-Pro SATA drives Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5b7e29c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It`s possible to install the Plan 9 distribution onto Asus P5Q-Pro motherboard with two SATA HDD drive and a SATA DVD-RAM/=C2=B1R/=C2=B1RWdr= ive with 4 GB memory. The Plan 9 distribution CDROM assumes the CDROM is connected to D: drive, which is the problem here. Then, connect the drives as SATA1=3DSATA HDD in my case 500GB Hitachi SATA drive) SATA2=3D SATA DVD-RAM/=C2=B1R/=C2=B1RW Sdrive SATA3=3D SATA HDD in my case the same as SATA1. First, install the Plan 9 system from the distribution CDROM using IDE Compatible mode. You may see some proble, such as some of the venti= =20 parameters are not properly set (mem, bcmem, icmem), so I recommend you to install fossil only first, and then setup venti later. In my case fossil.conf includes a line of fsys main config /dev/sdC0/fossil and venti.conf does two lines of isect /dev/sdC0/isect arenas /dev/sdD1/arenas0. Next, you should change the above lines as fsys main config /dev/sdE0/fossil and isect /dev/sdE0/isect arenas /dev/sdE2/arenas0. of couse you should change the relevant lines in you plan9.ini file. Then, exit the Plan 9 system, and return to the BIOS setting mode. Here, you should change disk configurations to use AHCI mode. this will lead you to SATA mode setupped Plan 9 system. Lastly, I'm not using bloom because it's not fit my system. Kenji