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From: John Floren <jfloren@moseslake-wa.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bootup menus...
Date: Sat,  6 Aug 2005 18:48:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F56863.20500@moseslake-wa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <727c1cb3f5c1ad03aed5be71ecb2aaa5@plan9.bell-labs.com>

jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Others have pointed out boot(8), init(8) for documentation.
> A plan9.ini file to do what you want with a 5 second timeout
> and serial console might look something like this:
> 
> [menu]
> menuitem=9pccpu, 9pccpu
> menuitem=manual, manual
> menuconsole=0, 9600
> menudefault=9pccpu, 5
> 
> [9pccpu]
> bootfile=ether0!/386/9pccpu
> 
> [manual]
> 
> [common]
> ether0=type=i82557
> console=0
> 
> 
I used a variation on this; works great.  Thanks a lot!

John
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-07  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-06 15:29 John Floren
2005-08-06 15:19 ` Christoph Lohmann
2005-08-06 16:52 ` jmk
2005-08-07  1:48   ` John Floren [this message]
2005-08-06 18:32 ` Tim Newsham

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