silly ideas: 1. couldn't you just use a kfs in a fdisk/fat partition?
2. another approach would be to use russ' boot-to-rc script trick. 3. prep the disk on a plan 9 machine. i was fighting a similar problem this morning. in my case the problem is that it is quite difficult to convince 9load to do any network io in addition to bootp/tftp. this makes finding a partition table on an aoe target somewhat difficult. here's my solution. in plan9.ini, add a line like sdf0part=9fat 0 20480/nvram 20480 20481/fossil 20481 41963521 where this is just the output from prep -p reformatted. disgusting, no? and it doesn't even solve your problem, because you don't have established parititions. - erik
