From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE boot? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:41:40 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: be4b309c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 30 May 2003, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > i'm there too. i gave up though -- etherboot won't recognize the gigabit > ethernet card on this box, so i'm waiting until i get a card etherboot can > use. ah, etherboot. such pain. you wanna go gross? you can do this: - boot linux - have linux kexec the plan9 loader, after we convert it into an elfimage ah, the horror, linux is now a plan9 loader bootstrap. What do you think? It would work. Or we convert the plan9 kernel to an elfimage, pass it to linux, and let linux boot plan9. That will work too. > the first time it loads the etherboot kernel, which then repeats the same > operation, but is this time given a 9load, which is masked as a linux kernel > image (this is what Ron uses to boot the small solid-state cluster). then > 9load could proceed loading any way it likes (still no plan9.ini at this > point, though). this way there is no restriction on the size of the 9load > image. actually 9load is an elfimage, not masked as a linux kernel image. Subtle but important difference: you can conceivably generate elfimages on your plan9 box, but linux kernel images? the horror. andrey, you can get 1 GHZ M-EPIA cards for $100, run linuxbios, put 9load in flash, and forget etherboot. Why not do that? ron