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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:22:43 +0100
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Dum-Bass question
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glendy# 9fat:
glendy# cd /n/9fat
glendy# lc
9LOAD      9pc        9pccpuf    9pccpuf.gz 9pcf       9pxeload   PLAN9.INI
glendy# lookman 9fat
man 2 authsrv # authsrv(2)
man 4 dossrv # dossrv(4)
man 8 9load # 9load(8)
man 8 booting # booting(8)
man 8 prep # prep(8)
man 8 update # update(8)

Best wishes

uriel

On 3/24/07, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
> 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
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