Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

[Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>]

Nice work! I think this is great! Thanks for your efforts.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 15:05, Iruata Souza<iru.muzgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Simon<steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> 9fat is also a pain in that the 9load file must be created with,
>> and retain its append only file, which has a special meaning to 9fat
>> telling it to create the file in sequential blocks.
>>
>> This could (and has) caused problems if you access the 9fat partition
>> from os's other than plan9.
>>
>> The only times I have had to change plan9.ini from somthing else
>> than the booted system (because I have broken the boot process)
>> I booted the plan9 live cdrom.
>>
>> I would be happy if 9load and 9fat disappeared and it was
>> replaced with a plan9 bootstrap kernel and (say) an rc(1) script.
>>
>
> that's just what 9null is: new pbs, 9pcload (bootstrap kernel),
> /boot/boot using rc(1) scripts.
> instead of a 'root from' you may get a 'kernel is at' prompt to which
> you can ask for a shell (!rc)
>
> iru
>
>



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