Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:05:31PM -0300, Iruata Souza wrote:
>
> that's just what 9null is: new pbs, 9pcload (bootstrap kernel),
> /boot/boot using rc(1) scripts.
> instead of a 'root from' you may get a 'kernel is at' prompt to which
> you can ask for a shell (!rc)

Thank you for doing this.

I worked years ago to add El Torito and uncommon floppy formats to Grub
just to realize that adding fs drivers, ethernet drivers, shell like
scripting we were just reinventing the wheel i.e. a kernel, that was
never efficient enough to recover a system when there was a problem,
and generally too complex for normal use when it was just booting as
usual.

It is simpler to be fs agnostic and load a sequence of
sectors. (Just as a note, there was at some time a tarfs with some BSD
to have a kind of organized stream of sectors. No incentive or whatever,
just a note about the same kind of principles or tracks followed
somewhere else.)

Cheers,
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