Booting 9front on a USB stick on coreboot devices

Posted on 2026-03-25 I have an old Thinkpad x230 and it has Coreboot instead of the regular bios. The wireless card is an atheros card that does not need binary blobs to run. When I try to boot 9front (the most maintained Plan 9 fork), it gets stuck pretty early without initializing the graphics card. The solution pointed to, by a few folks on the 9front list, is to use grub to chain load the…