Re: [9fans] Re: Duplicate entries in fresh plan9.ini

["Sander van Dijk" <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com>]

,On Jan 9, 2008 5:07 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > I've been looking for the cause of these duplicate entries, and they
> > appear to have been introduced together with the third boot option on
> > the cd, "Boot Plan 9 from this CD and debug 9load".
> > I've been able to trace the cause of the duplicate entries back to the
> > following line in /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/bootsetup on the cd:
>
> I agree 100% with your diagnosis.  I have been hoping that
> the "debug 9load" option will just go away one day.

That's why I'm wondering if they're still needed.

Back in November, there where problems with the then recent
plan9.iso's (see thread "Problems Booting Plan9 CD", started on Nov 1,
2007). So the third boot option was added (see thread "Suggestion:
Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc", also started on Nov 1, 2007,
especially the second post by Geoff).

The problem I had before the third menu option was introduced, was
that the booting process would fail already before it reached the
menu.
After the third menu option was added however, the iso's have been
working fine for me: the menu is reached, and all of the options
(including the "debug 9load" one) work. Hence, I have the feeling that
removing the third menu option again would be no problem. I'd be happy
to test an image without the third menu option to check if my feeling
is right.

Greetings, Sander.