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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Steve Simon <[email protected]> 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 various places; in the case of PXE, it even searches over >> ethernet at /cfg/pxe/MAC. It would be enough if this case was >> extended to the general loader, instead of just 9pxeload (what's >> so special about that anyways?). >> >> >> ak >> >
