From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] getting sdC0/nvram right in /bootdir
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Date: Sat,  8 Nov 2003 10:31:06 -0700
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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