From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:29:13 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.att.com jmk@plan9.att.com
Subject: future co-existence with Linux?
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	> a) making plan9 bootable from LILO (the Linux loader)?
I don't know what LILO does, in fact I know very little about Linux.
The Plan 9 kernel has to be loaded into memory at 0x100020 and jumped to
in protected mode. It also expects some configuration data to be left
around in low memory. These two things are usually done by the boot
programme 'b.com' which can be started either from MS-DOS or directly
from the boot sector on a floppy.

The linkage between b.com and the kernel is likely to change at some
point, there's a lot of duplication of effort and the current plan9.ini
configuration scheme needs looked at.

	> b) writing an e2fs server for plan 9?
Writing a server should not be hard given a description of the filesystem
and an existing example to test it on (I don't have either).