From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:08:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10707171008u66031dc1g883b4eadfb0a10b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3cc33487ebf345b059727f902c5c27e@coraid.com>
On 7/17/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> why can't you just put the (known) offsets in your plan9.ini like i am doing
> for aoe? it's distasteful, but it does get the job done.
>
Until the offsets change. This is intended to be used by people other than me.
> if you don't like that you could put fdisk and prep in your kernel
> image, write a new boot method, localpart, that partitions before
> it calls local. you could import the code for this from 9load.
That's what I did several years ago for the xen 2.0 port but there was
an objection to it that I never understood. I'll go with that.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 15:52 ron minnich
2007-07-17 16:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 16:06 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 16:23 ` Steve Simon
2007-07-17 16:29 ` ron minnich
2007-07-17 16:49 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 17:08 ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-07-17 17:41 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-17 19:08 ` Uriel
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