From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pcf + devfs In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:23:03 MDT." From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <21787.1066227489.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:18:09 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6f47c11c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I have pcfl running fine (thanx to your suggestions a few months ago > regarding devfs), and have booted 9pcf in a single-disk environment. > My question was prompted by my inability to find any configuration > file or a script in which to specify that a particular 9pcf kernel > should boot using devfs (#k). there's a way to initialize #k from a disk sector explaining the layout. the man page says how. if you do that (and add #k to the pcf kernel) then you don't need pcfl and its boot script. > ps: by the way, /sys/lib/sysconfig/fl/ has been empty for some time > now, the files it contained disappeared on the 18th of September, > according to my venti... that's because you're supposed to use 9pcf. the boot script stuff is great for trying new things, but for actually doing things where you pull in sensible defaults and the like, the c code in /sys/src/9/boot seems to do a better job. once i had figured out how a fossil kernel should be booted (using the boot script as a flexible prototype) i put the logic into boot. russ