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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:28:20 -0600
From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:54:40 +0900, Vester Thacker
<vester.thacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:11:42 -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
> <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:
> 
> Are you looking for volunteers for creating a new
> bootstrap? If so, then maybe a working group
> could be formed... something akin to what EricVH
> has done with v9fs.
> 

Personally, I'd rather see us punt on the whole loader issue
where-ever possible.  It seems reasonable enough to use "other
people's loaders" to boot Plan 9.  I believe Ron talks about booting
Plan 9 from LinuxBIOS on the Wiki and I'm sure other loaders could be
made to work.  We have enough to do without having to worry about
writing boot loaders.

          -eric