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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:08:10 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>,
	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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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Vester Thacker wrote:

> Are you looking for volunteers for creating a new
> bootstrap? 

why bother, I wonder. We've found plan 9 itself is a very nice bootstrap, 
and I've used it that way in clusters. 

convert plan 9 to an elf image, point grub or whatever at it, voila, done. 

I think you're better off making it easy to use Plan 9 as a bootstrap than 
to write a new 9load ...

ron