From: bs <balajis@comcast.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:16:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419C222B.2070902@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b8af63a9aff0dbdbf3f1a2166f9943e@collyer.net>
geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Command line to what? The kernels don't have command lines.
>
> The other platforms generally are much better defined. The PC just
> happened, and so there's all sorts of ad hocery to cope with, such as
> the lack of a proper boot prom capable of bootp/dhcp/tftp loading and
> of accepting console configuration commands. The alphapc port
> actually does read a plan9.ini file from /alpha/conf, much like the
> newer /cfg/pxe. Of course you have to be able to find your main
> Ethernet interface in order to load those files...
in the case of PXE boot why not get it from a DHCPREQUEST?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 1:55 Tim Newsham
2004-11-17 2:09 ` geoff
2004-11-17 2:11 ` jmk
2004-11-18 0:54 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 1:28 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-11-18 2:32 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-11-18 2:43 ` geoff
2004-11-18 3:09 ` Tim Newsham
2004-11-18 3:16 ` geoff
2004-11-18 3:54 ` Tim Newsham
2004-11-18 4:01 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-18 4:53 ` jmk
2004-11-18 6:04 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 10:39 ` C H Forsyth
2004-11-18 11:45 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 7:10 ` geoff
2004-11-18 4:16 ` bs [this message]
2004-11-18 3:40 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-18 4:26 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 4:34 ` Vester Thacker
2004-11-18 16:23 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-18 15:08 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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