On Thu Feb 7 01:35:45 EST 2013, bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote: > I've downloaded the nix bits from http://code.google.com/p/nix-os/ and
i think this is active any longer. however the 9atom cd has an active copy of nix. i know that ian ennis booted /amd64/9term into a vmware fusion virtual machine all the way up to rio. this version has been in production for a year. On Thu Feb 7 03:10:32 EST 2013, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: > Yes , but "9pxeload" is now called "9boot". 9boot is quite different. it uses the regular pc drivers and is in /sys/src/9/pcboot. also (this is unfortunate), i don't think 9boot will boot nix on the 9atom disk without a bit of help. nix expects the e820 map in the configuration variable "*e820". one could generate this variable and put it in the plan9.ini. barring other problems, that might just work. (http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/8/plan9.ini) nix from 9atom will boot from 9load, or iplpxe (and likely ipliso, but i haven't tried) from 9atom. iplpxe uses the undi drivers so will support any hardware that has pxe rom, not just cards that we have drivers for. 9atom no longer incudes ppxeload. - erik
