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 16:05:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinG23p6hPkGdk3a5g2LPXmeMkFvtdaqTC+NfNUV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <093cb37a4fd449023654dd5e9a741b8a@quintile.net>
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 23:05 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 [this message]
2010-08-01 23:38 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-08-01 23:54 ` Akshat Kumar
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