From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] compact form server
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:57:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60603190657q10cf3b05n511c6ca5d49ba2a2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dcbe5980603171627o68d600afkc77e7a969fe67f95@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/17/06, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/17/06, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> > > anyone has any recommendations for a server box (p4 @ 2+ GHz) with a
> > > small footprint, that can run plan9 cpu+auth?
> >
> > Down the road, is there any hope of booting on an x86 Mac Mini?
> >
> > -Jack
> >
>
> Probably, just hack some code from the solution used to do that for
> Windows (which means emulating a few BIOS calls). An alternate
> approach would be to rewrite the bootloader so that it would work in
> EFI.
>
And support non MBR partitions (GPT). Also likely needs either a VGA
BIOS or to use whatever it's got UGA instead.
I've got a hunch there's not much "just" about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-19 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 20:35 Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-18 0:01 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-18 0:19 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-18 0:27 ` veritosproject
2006-03-19 14:57 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-03-18 0:29 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-18 1:12 ` John Barham
2006-03-17 21:12 erik quanstrom
2006-03-18 3:37 jmk
2006-03-18 8:08 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-18 17:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-20 15:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-20 17:24 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-20 18:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-20 18:27 ` jmk
2006-03-20 19:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-20 19:48 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-20 23:24 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-20 19:27 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-06 8:59 ` ems
2006-03-20 18:18 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-03-20 19:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
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