From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] boot order on separate venti/fossil machines
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:14:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5ge0-M7ATv6rkUHUWvg6FDLFZ2x=t7LxmQMCCN_jEGZaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25CDD0D7-B7EB-4DC6-8DB3-D28C57C785A8@germteig.com>
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Fossil once attached to venti can't serve without it, so venti must arrive
first.
My machine is fossil+venti, so not quite what you asked about, but the
mechanism would
be similar. The server boots the kernel from 9fat. (If I wanted to pxe boot
the venti,
I could push the boot server problem back to a boot server, perhaps the
auth server.)
The kernel uses configuration pcfs, which contains enough in bootdir to
start and run fossil,
which checks $venti (set in plan9.ini) to see if it should run that first,
if local. If venti isn't
local, it sets up the network so fossil can dial it.
/sys/src/9/boot/local.c organises that. I don't think a configuration is
provided
that starts just venti, but some of the pc* configurations in /sys/src/9/pc
hint at ways to
make various custom systems.
(9front's /sys/src/9/boot use rc scripts, which is much easier to change,
but it doesn't provide fossil at all.)
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 08:21, Marco Feichtinger <marco@germteig.com> wrote:
> I am curios.
> In an environment where you have separate machines for fossil and venti,
> do you boot fossil first, and let venti pxe boot over it,
> or do you boot venti first, with a small, local, fossil partition?
>
> -marco
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 18:52 [9fans] disk/prep partitioning issue Marco Feichtinger
2024-04-18 7:14 ` Richard Miller
2024-04-18 7:59 ` Richard Miller
2024-04-20 7:19 ` [9fans] boot order on separate venti/fossil machines Marco Feichtinger
2024-04-21 18:14 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2024-04-18 9:29 ` [9fans] disk/prep partitioning issue Marco Feichtinger
2024-04-18 12:17 ` Richard Miller
2024-04-18 12:21 ` Marco Feichtinger
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