Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers

[Karl Magdsick <kmagnum@gmail.com>]

How difficult would it be to make the Plan9 kernel compliant with the
MultiBoot standard?

This would seem to be the path of least resistance for getting the
Plan9 kernel working with other bootloaders.  In addition to working
"out of the box" with MultiBoot bootloaders, there are tools that will
wrap any MultiBoot kernel (plus any modules) along with some stub code
into an image that can be booted by any bootloader that can boot a
Linux kernel.  There is a similar tool to get any MultiBoot kernel
(plus any modules) to mimic one of the BSD kernels.


-Karl

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:28:20 -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen
<ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>