From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ethernet booting
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:38:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim_P+X=romBmgmGKzghHtuteX_xuq8niTdNQq4d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinG23p6hPkGdk3a5g2LPXmeMkFvtdaqTC+NfNUV@mail.gmail.com>
The real problem here being that my 3com ethernet
card grabs 9pxeload (or so it seems) via BOOTP
and TFTP, but then can't run the damn thing.
The ROM has Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.32.
However, downloading and running 9load works
just fine.
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Akshat Kumar
<akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>>> Can I get it to download
>>> the INI file as well, some how?
>>
>> I don't beleive so.
>>
>> Normally the plan9.ini is be read from the same
>> device that 9load is loaded from.
>
> see /sys/src/boot/pc/load.c - the loader searches for plan9.ini
> in various places; in the case of PXE, it even searches over
> ethernet at /cfg/pxe/MAC. It would be enough if this case was
> extended to the general loader, instead of just 9pxeload (what's
> so special about that anyways?).
>
>
> ak
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-01 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-01 21:52 Akshat Kumar
2010-08-01 22:28 ` Steve Simon
2010-08-01 23:05 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-08-01 23:38 ` Akshat Kumar [this message]
2010-08-01 23:54 ` Akshat Kumar
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