Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
Ah, I got PXE to work - there is a special and hidden configuration menu for the boot agent. The easter egg was hidden at CTRL + ALT + B. On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > The real problem here being that my 3com ethernet > card grabs 9pxeload (or so it seems) via BOOTP > and

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
The real problem here being that my 3com ethernet card grabs 9pxeload (or so it seems) via BOOTP and TFTP, but then can't run the damn thing. The ROM has Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.32. However, downloading and running 9load works just fine. On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote:

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> Can I get it to download >> the INI file as well, some how? > > I don't beleive so. > > Normally the plan9.ini is be read from the same > device that 9load is loaded from. see /sys/src/boot/pc/load.c - the loader searches for plan9.ini in vari

Re: [9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Steve Simon
> Can I get it to download > the INI file as well, some how? I don't beleive so. Normally the plan9.ini is be read from the same device that 9load is loaded from. -Steve

[9fans] ethernet booting

2010-08-01 Thread Akshat Kumar
I'm booting over ethernet, using the basic 9load (not 9pxeload). However, in /lib/ndb/local on my CPU server (where it downloads 9load), I can only specify bootf=/386/9load that is, I can't specify an INI file. I know the 9pxeload loader looks in /cfg/pxe/ to grab INI details; what can be done fo