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From: nw@metadesign.com.au
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] 9load and plan9.ini - support for "Multiple Configurations"
Date: Fri,  2 Feb 2001 09:33:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7nrk7t0hldco828c44oa3a14luko5fj3g4@4ax.com> (raw)

In the description of plan9.ini:

	http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/plan9.ini

there is a section labelled "Multiple Configurations"

I changed my /n/9fat/plan9.ini to include [menu]/[common] tags, but on
rebooting I do not get a menu.

A casual perusal of /sys/src/boot/pc/* and I cannot find any code
which processes the menu display or selection.

I have some questions:

Is there something wrong with my plan9.ini (reproduced below)?

Where is the code to interpret the tags?

Is there accepted practice for identifying and specifying the
version/build/release/revision of Plan 9?

As a general strategy if I receive answers to these questions should I
add them to the Plan 9 wiki?

/n/9fat/plan9.ini:

[menu]
menuitem=vgasmall,	Plan 9 with 640x480 vga
menuitem=vgabig,	Plan 9 with 1024x768 vga
menudefault=vgasmall
[vgabig]
vgasize=1024x768x8
[vgasmall]
vgasize=640x480x8
[common]
bootfile=sdC0!9fat!9pcdisk
bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/fs
debug=1
*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
ether0=type=i82557 10BASE-T
monitor=multisync
mouseport=ps2


             reply	other threads:[~2001-02-02  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-02  9:33 nw [this message]
2001-02-02 16:38 jmk
2001-02-02 16:41 ` Mike Acar
2001-02-05  9:56 ` nw
2001-02-07  9:47   ` nw

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