On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Steve Simon<st...@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
