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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?


  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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