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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:39:05 -0600
From: "Latchesar Ionkov" <lucho@ionkov.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 refuses to boot from iMac
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Looks like Apple's BIOS emulator doesn't emulate a standard keyboard.
9load loops forever in i8042init waiting for "a quiescent controller".

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello. Tired of waiting for Q's developers to fix the bug resulting in QEMU,
> which Q provides a wrapper for, freezing every time I boot, I decided to try
> to run Plan 9 on native Mac hardware. I have a December 2006 iMac with a
> 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. When I boot the iMac from the latest Plan 9 disc,
> here's what I get.
>
>         PBSI... Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>         ELCR... 0C00
>
>  and everything comes to a halt. This is what I got back on Tiger when I
> first joined 9fans. Does anyone know what's wrong? Thanks.
>
>
>