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From: "Daryl M" <glenda@mc2research.org>
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:05:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GPT partitions
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Jens,

I am currently working on a UEFI boot loader for Plan9.
The initial version will be 32-bit but should be followed shortly by an x64
(64 bit) version.

I'm hoping to be able to switch automatically between MBR and GPT schemes.

The Plan9 kernel appears to make many assumptions about its environment.
	(emphasis on "appears".  This changes as my knowledge increases)
The documentation in this area is also sadly lacking.

I'm slowly tracking down these issues and resolving them.

I don't have any idea when I will be done since I don't have lots of time to
work on it.

Daryl

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From: Jens Staal
Subject: [9fans] GPT partitions

Dear all,

I am interested in moving from running Plan9 in a VM to (try to) running on
bare metal but since I am on a laptop with a single HDD and I play around
with a couple of different things, I need to use GPT instead of MBR to avoid
the silly 4 partition limit (since Plan9 can not be on an extended
partition).

Does any of the Plan9 variants support booting from a GPT partition
nowadays?
I have not experimented with EFI boot yet on my primary OS but as far as I
have read, this could also avoid chainloading bootloaders - any experience
with this?

I am also interested in the 64-bit HDD image from 9atom, but was never able
to load that one with syslinux - so if anyone got any tips and tricks there
that would also be cool.

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