From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weigelt@gr13.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:28:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547E3CF1.1090706@gr13.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJnqBTKJF0=0cOFU8Tk2HPHe5vn7C4b+3AVLRo+A1qViJ6DOQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 02.12.2014 23:02, Iruatã Souza wrote:
>> apropos kernel/bootloader: I just recently had a look at the code
>> and somewhat got the impression that 9load seems to be a specially
>> tailored plan9 kernel, which then loads the real kernel.
>>
>> is that correct or am I mistaken here ?
>
> Correct.
hmm, interesting.
What's the exact reason behind that ?
I'm really not an expert for bootloaders, but I always got the
impression, that bootloaders need to be extremly minimal (eg. on
PC you'll have only about 0.5k for the first stage) and serve an
entirely different purpose than an OS kernel.
OTOH, having a complete OS/Kernel as preboot environment of course
also has it's charm - allows easily adding lots of setup things,
even rescue stuff, etc.
Can 9front also boot other operating systems, eg. Linux ?
Could it become a replacement for other bootloaders like grub ?
cu
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Enrico Weigelt,
metux IT consulting
+49-151-27565287
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-01 5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 8:43 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 0:30 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02 0:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 2:16 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 4:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:05 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 4:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 2:42 ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-02 3:31 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:43 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 9:32 ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12 ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48 ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54 ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult [this message]
2014-12-02 22:55 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03 0:20 ` yoann padioleau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24 1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24 0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy
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