From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Dum-Bass question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:10:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460593A9.7070707@conducive.org> (raw)
Fans,
Online docs (http://planb.lsub.org/magic/man2html/8/9load) describing Plan9's
boot process, say, in part:
...in order to find configuration information, 9load searches all units on
devices fd and sdCn, in that order, for a file called plan9\plan9.ini or
plan9.ini (see plan9.ini(8)) on a partition named dos or 9fat. If one is found,
searching stops and the file is read into memory at physical address 0x1200
where it can be found later by any loaded bootfile. Some options in plan9.ini
are used by 9load...
NB: These may be the wrong docs... Google dasn't *quite* read minds....)
Elsewhere, instructions and examples are publshed for *creating* a plan9.ini file.
My questions are:
- Does a CD-install of 'native' Plan9 to a combined fossil/venti HDD partition
(eminently bootable, runnable) create a default 'plan9.ini'?
- If so, *where*, and how can I cat or Sam it from a running system?
- If not, how and where *does* Plan9 derive the functionally equivalent
information it needs to complete the boot process?
(i.e. - given that it is operating the hardware as expected, what goes on
if/as/when the above search *fails*?)
Objective of the exercise (at this point) is to confirm that plan9.ini or
functional equivalent, effects the published default of disabling the second
core in a Core-D P4, and, if so, attempt to re-enable same and see what, if
anything, breaks.
A mere link to more appropriate docs may be all I need...
Perplexed (after ls'ing all over Hell and at least half of Texas..)
Bill Hacker
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-24 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-24 21:10 W B Hacker [this message]
2007-03-24 21:22 ` Uriel
2007-03-24 21:27 ` W B Hacker
2007-03-24 21:23 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-03-24 21:28 ` W B Hacker
2007-03-24 21:31 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2007-03-24 21:46 ` W B Hacker
2007-03-25 4:46 ` lucio
2007-03-26 2:52 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-26 18:21 ` lucio
2007-03-26 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-25 5:35 ` Kris Maglione
[not found] <e6603ec6522141933897d9bcad48ce01@proxima.alt.za>
2007-03-25 8:11 ` W B Hacker
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