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Date: Sat,  7 Jul 2007 18:19:33 -0700
From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Trouble starting Plan9 Installation and Live CD
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On 7/7/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> a better but more involved fix might be to switch to 16bit mode and call bios
> for floppy access.  this is more complicated but could pave the way for 9load
> using universal drivers (part of the pxe standard) to load the kernel proper
> instead of modified versions of the cpu kernel drivers.

Thinking about how some of the other platforms handle it, and even
other OSes on x86, has anyone looked at trying to leverage a different
bootloader?  Something like grub, maybe?

-Jack