sounds like we're screwing up reading the keyboard, i.e., we're
seeing a continuous stream of characters in 9load.

It also seems like we're finding a different plan9.ini than
you included in the message.  The Selection: prompt appears
only if you have a [menu] directive in the plan9.ini.  I forget
the exact ordering of where we get plan9.ini from these days.
I do know that we look first on the floppy, and then in some
order on the DOS partition for the hard disk and in the 9fat
partition on the hard disk.  Do you have another plan9.ini
hiding somewhere from a previous version of plan 9?