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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:57:06 -0800
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
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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.