From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:42:17 -0400 From: Dan Cross To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails Message-ID: <20060420214217.GJ9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <3e1162e60604181454l35bd6917v8a6169c6befd9baa@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60604190725u4d8a123an8fb3ae1c9a383574@mail.gmail.com> <444649C3.8040401@lanl.gov> <44469546.1000500@village.com> <44479D04.5040706@lanl.gov> <6e35c0620604200850w2cd27446y873df69308755e24@mail.gmail.com> <4447FB38.6080601@lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4447FB38.6080601@lanl.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 421fb528-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:20:56PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > EFI requires a FAT-12 formatted FLASH on your mainboard. Licensed IP > from M$. As is the PCOFF format the binaries use. > > need I say more? FAT-12? Shesh. You know, I wonder why a more reasonable filesystem format can't be found for things like this. I mean, it doesn't have to be fancy (I've often thought that a simple extent-based filesystem with an extent- based directory structure would be sufficient for, e.g., 9fat), but it doesn't have to be FAT, either. - Dan C.