I am installing plan 9 in a qemu rigth now and the version from the iso i
downloaded 10 hours ago isn't working as it should. The fix for the
plan9.ini problem has a bug.
The grep and sort line in bin/bootsetup is where the bug is as far as I can
see ( /sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/bootsetup:40 ).

			grep -v '(^\[)|menuitem|adisk|bootfile|bootdisk|bootargs|nobootprompt|mouseport|vgasize|monitor|cdboot'
|
				sort -u /tmp/plan9.orig


Only one argument given to grep so it read from stdin instead of a
plan9.inifile. I tried to paste in the file I thought was the right,
but I had to
edit plan9.ini before rebooting anyway. Maybe it's because sort has the
argument that grep is missing.

Good thing I knew how to edit plan9.ini. After 3 hours of installing in qemu
you don't want to see an error in the last bootsetup step.


-Patrick

2008/1/9, 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.
>