From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:54:51 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers
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> Command line to what?  The kernels don't have command lines.

Many boot loaders provide arguments to the booting kernel.
I don't think it should be very difficult to craft a command
line such as:

   9pcdisk bootdisk=local!#S/sdC0/fs *nomp=1 monitor=multisync75
		vgasize=1024x768x8

parsing this out from a single argument buffer should be a
trivial addition to the current sources.  Looks like getting
at this data is pretty simple:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/html_node/Boot-information-format.html#Boot%20information%20format

Tim N.