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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:34:35 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] some recent updates
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On Sat Feb 26 04:59:52 EST 2005, newsham@lava.net wrote:
> > 8c	-H5 flag
> > 	produces an ELF format header understood by the Plan 9
> > 	libmach and by Grub
>
> Sounds like there's a story here.  Is Grub going to be a
> supported boot method?
>
> > --jim
>
> Tim N.

I'm undecided. I was doing some prep work for the AMD64
port and thinking about how to boot it and thought using Grub might
save me some effort. It won't really, Grub and 9load are products
of parallel evolution ending in the same train wreck.

But I'll probably add in the remaining bits to poke around in the
multiboot info Grub leaves around and finish it off. What you have
now lets you boot a Plan 9 kernel but it has no config info usually
left by 9load.

--jim