Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps on sources

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Miller
> 9load and 9loadusb should behave much as the old ones > did, though I hope that the new ones will run on more machines. With either of these, I get panic: RMCODE < 2070 bytes It seems that the real-mode code is a bit large: term% nm -ng /386/9loaddebug 8001 T _start16r 8001 T _

[9fans] new pc bootstraps on sources

2012-05-11 Thread geoff
9boot(8) is the place to start. 9boot replaces 9pxeload but is more persistent. 9load and 9loadusb should behave much as the old ones did, though I hope that the new ones will run on more machines. One can boot through any PCI ethernet interface for which we have a kernel driver now. We are usi

Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps

2012-05-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Stephen Wiley wrote: > > On May 10, 2012, at 7:30 PM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > > > New PC bootstraps and manual pages will be arriving > > on sources soon. Highlights include amd64 booting, > > using kernel device drivers, better CD booting, and > > the

Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps

2012-05-11 Thread Stephen Wiley
On May 10, 2012, at 7:30 PM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > New PC bootstraps and manual pages will be arriving > on sources soon. Highlights include amd64 booting, > using kernel device drivers, better CD booting, and > the ability to run on a wider range of machines. > See the upcoming man

Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps

2012-05-11 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:30:25PM -0400, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > New PC bootstraps and manual pages will be arriving > on sources soon. Highlights include amd64 booting, > using kernel device drivers, better CD booting, and > the ability to run on a wider range of machines. > See the u

[9fans] new pc bootstraps

2012-05-10 Thread geoff
New PC bootstraps and manual pages will be arriving on sources soon. Highlights include amd64 booting, using kernel device drivers, better CD booting, and the ability to run on a wider range of machines. See the upcoming manual pages for more information.