> Well, I left the machine on its own and after slightly
> less than an hour it offered a prompt with some more info,
> I believe, so now it might be clearer to say what is wrong.
> See prompt.png.
>
that's expected behavior /sys/lib/newuser will fix that.
the lengthy init was all venti.
- erik
>
> If I choose to install plan9, I get a result shown in the attached
> a.png (and it does not proceed any further).
>
> If I choose to just boot (not install), it gets stuck after
> init: starting /bin/rc
> and shows the same 'spurious interrupt 39'.
>
Try to play with AHCI settings in BIOS.
IIR
> I tried 9atom from 2014-06-27, but it doesn't (now I add 'always'; sometimes
> it does get through) boot.
>
> If I choose to install plan9, I get a result shown in the attached
> a.png (and it does not proceed any further).
>
> If I choose to just boot (not install), it gets stuck after
> init:
