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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: Xen bootloader
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:37:19 -0600
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Mark Williamson wrote:

> The kboot approach could access 9p filesystems, if that helps.  Maybe you 
> could make a FAT partition on the virtual disk and stash the kernel there?  I 
> presume Plan9 supports FAT as a lingua franca?

yeah, as much as I dislike it, the boot partition on plan9, for now, is 
FAT. Yuck.

ron