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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:49:54 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] the perpetual disk partition problem
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> The boot cd does not help me -- cd is partitioned. I think the
> question still needs a good answer -- you have a cd and a disk image,
> you boot plan 9 without benefit of 9load, how do you get #S/sdD0/data
> set up? you need to write to ctl. What's the sensible way to do this?
> 
> ron

why can't you just put the (known) offsets in your plan9.ini like i am doing
for aoe?  it's distasteful, but it does get the job done.

if you don't like that you could put fdisk and prep in your kernel
image, write a new boot method, localpart, that partitions before
it calls local.  you could import the code for this from 9load.

- erik