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
>>
>

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