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Date: Sun,  1 Aug 2010 16:05:40 -0700
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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ethernet booting
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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