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Building a kernel only 9front ISO =================================== For times in which PXE is not avaible, it can be useful to have access to an ISO file that just contains a kernel for booting machines and then having them tls/tcp boot from a file server. This guide will be assuming you have a file and auth server somewhere on your network, and that you plan to boot a amd64 kernel on the target machine. Lets start with a plan9.ini for our target system: bootfile=/amd64/9pc64 cdboot=yes mouseport=ps2 monitor=vesa vgasize=1024x768x16 auth=192.168.1.6 fs=192.168.1.5 user=moody bootargs=tls Next we will need a proto file for disk/mk9660: uid=sys gid=sys 386 d775 9bootfat 664 9boothyb 664 9bootiso 664 mbr 664 pbs 664 cfg d775 plan9.ini 664 amd64 d775 9pc64 664 For a small script to generate the ISO file itself: #!/bin/rc rfork n bind /root /n/src9 bind plan9.ini /n/src9/cfg/plan9.ini disk/mk9660 -c9j -B 386/9bootiso \ -p 9bootproto \ -s /n/src9 -v 'Plan 9' kern.iso This results in a `kern.iso` file being created in the current directory.