From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting Plan9 standalone and in vmware Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:21:44 -0700 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <4186EC1F.5040904@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9dc56b6-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 you can use one of the older configurations files, /sys/src/9/pc/pcfl which incorporate a shell and a script in the kernel. it is much trickier to configure and ends up with a massively bigger kernel, but it gives you the ability to choose where to boot a fossil from (essentially you decide what config file it boots with every time you start up). it may be more work than you're willing to do. if you get stuck email me privately and i'll give you sample configs. andrey > And so it is; and that means that my vmware/bare machine dual boot > scheme is doomed to failure ;-) > Am I right in assuming that there's no hook for changing it in the boot > sequence? > > Is there a better to do what I'm looking for? > > Thanks, > Paul > > > YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote: > >>Your fossil configuration branded into fossil partition >>might contain sdD0 like: >>% fossil/conf /dev/sdC0/fossil (or any other fossil partition) >>fsys main config /dev/sdD0/fossil >> >>