From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200312090150.hB91oZfq024908@math.Princeton.EDU> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] booting plan9 cd on thinkpad x23 In-reply-to: <20031208234623.70016.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031208234623.70016.qmail@web60506.mail.yahoo.com> From: John Stalker Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:50:35 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9da6e9de-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I read about ld somewhere, it must have been the > plan9-wiki. I'll go there again. > > ld -> 9load -> kernel on iso-image on fatfs -> > install? > Hmmm. That certainly sounds like an option if ld and > 9load are up to it! > > Thank you, > Dennis Decker Jensen > It is, unfortunately, a bit more complicated than that. ld can load 9load and 9load can load a kernel, but not one on an iso image as far as I know. You need a kernel on your dos partition. This is not a big problem, just copy 9pcdisk from the install CD, which should be readable under Win2k, to C:. You will need a plan9.ini which tells 9load where to find this kernel, but that is not a big problem. It's after your kernel loads that the problems begin, since you don't have a plan9 userland. Normally the kernel would run an rc script named termrc, roughly analogous to an init script, but you don't have either the shell or the shell script until you've unpacked your iso image. You will need to create enough of a plan9 userland under Win2k to get things rolling. This should be possible, but it may take a few tries to get it right. I can try doing this on one of my machines to see where the pitfalls are, but I might not have time for a day or two. -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469