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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:05:02 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem
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silly ideas:

1. couldn't you just use a kfs in a fdisk/fat partition?

2. another approach would be to use russ' boot-to-rc script
trick.

3. prep the disk on a plan 9 machine.

i was fighting a similar problem this morning.  in my case
the problem is that it is quite difficult to convince 9load
to do any network io in addition to bootp/tftp.  this makes
finding a partition table on an aoe target somewhat difficult.

here's my solution.  in plan9.ini, add a line like

sdf0part=9fat 0 20480/nvram 20480 20481/fossil 20481 41963521

where this is just the output from prep -p reformatted.
disgusting, no?  and it doesn't even solve your problem, because you
don't have established parititions.

- erik