future co-existence with Linux?

[Will Rose cwr@cts.com]

In article <95Aug27.005132edt.45490@colossus.cse.psu.edu> you wrote:
: 	> 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.

If you are messing with boot loaders, take a look at bootmon at
ftp.cs.vu.nl, pub/minix - it's one of the best ones going, and 
the most versatile, and the best documented.  It was written
by kjb@cs.vu.nl, if you need permission to use it.

(I thought I'd just mention this, so you don't have to re-invent
the wheel as you did with rawrite).

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com