From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] getting sdC0/nvram right in /bootdir
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 10:31:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311081030300.7537-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0b5dbf8e95d842576fa98410014f0bd@hamnavoe.com>
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Richard Miller wrote:
> > The other option, not taken, is the new linux approach of actually running
> > shell scripts in bootdir (which in linux is called initrd). I think I'd
> > rather wait to do this ... do we really want /bin/rc in bootdir?
>
> It's already been done. Look at /sys/src/9/pc/pcfl
>
> bootdir
> /386/bin/rc
> /rc/lib/rcmain
> /386/bin/bind
> /386/bin/cat
> /386/bin/cp
> /386/bin/echo
> /386/bin/mount
> /386/bin/sleep
> ... etc etc
>
well then I don't even need my silly program! I'll just run the shell
script.
Thanks. It is interesting to see how Plan 9 and Linux are doing pretty
much the same thing for booting nowadays.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-08 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-08 5:19 ron minnich
2003-11-08 8:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-08 9:57 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-08 17:31 ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-11-08 17:46 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-09 15:37 ` ron minnich
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