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From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] getting sdC0/nvram right in /bootdir
Date: Sat,  8 Nov 2003 09:57:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0b5dbf8e95d842576fa98410014f0bd@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311072205250.2521-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

> The other option, not taken, is the new linux approach of actually running
> shell scripts in bootdir (which in linux is called initrd). I think I'd
> rather wait to do this ... do we really want /bin/rc in bootdir?

It's already been done. Look at /sys/src/9/pc/pcfl

bootdir
	/386/bin/rc
	/rc/lib/rcmain
	/386/bin/bind
	/386/bin/cat
	/386/bin/cp
	/386/bin/echo
	/386/bin/mount
	/386/bin/sleep
	... etc etc

-- Richard



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-08  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-08  5:19 ron minnich
2003-11-08  8:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-08  9:57 ` Richard Miller [this message]
2003-11-08 17:31   ` ron minnich
2003-11-08 17:46 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-09 15:37   ` ron minnich

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