The Nov 3rd image didn't work for me.  But, by turning off extended IDE mode
for my HDD, I was able to get an error message in assembly rather than it
just hanging without any error message.  (Not sure if that makes it
irrelevant, but anyway.)

http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/dmesg
http://home.earthlink.net/~eldanen/pastes/plan9output

The following was appended to "plan9output":

FLAGS=10246 TRAP=0 ENCODE=0 PC=80030089
AX 00000000 BX 8004483c CX 00000000 DX 00000000
SI 0000020 DI 00000000 BP 80047e6c
CS 0010 DS 0008 ES 0008 FS 0008 GS 0008
CRO 80000011 CR2 00f0c05c CR3 0000c000
panic: exception/interrupt 0

Press almost any key to reset...



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