From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9load and plan9.ini - support for "Multiple Configurations"
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Date: Fri,  2 Feb 2001 11:38:32 -0500
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On Fri Feb  2 04:38:44 EST 2001, nw@metadesign.com.au wrote:
> In the description of plan9.ini:
>
> 	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/plan9.ini
>
> there is a section labelled "Multiple Configurations"
>
> I changed my /n/9fat/plan9.ini to include [menu]/[common] tags, but on
> rebooting I do not get a menu.
>
> A casual perusal of /sys/src/boot/pc/* and I cannot find any code
> which processes the menu display or selection.
>
> I have some questions:
>
> Is there something wrong with my plan9.ini (reproduced below)?
>
> Where is the code to interpret the tags?
>
> Is there accepted practice for identifying and specifying the
> version/build/release/revision of Plan 9?
>
> As a general strategy if I receive answers to these questions should I
> add them to the Plan 9 wiki?
>
> /n/9fat/plan9.ini:
>
> [menu]
> menuitem=vgasmall,	Plan 9 with 640x480 vga
> menuitem=vgabig,	Plan 9 with 1024x768 vga
> menudefault=vgasmall
> [vgabig]
> vgasize=1024x768x8
> [vgasmall]
> vgasize=640x480x8
> [common]
> bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcdisk
> bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/fs
> debug=1
> *nomp=1
> distname=plan9
> partition=new
> ether0=type=i82557 10BASE-T
> monitor=multisync
> mouseport=ps2

You are somehow seeing our internal, updated, man page.
The multiple configuration part of 9load is recent and
not in the 9load you have.