From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] GPT partitions
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:57:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42946d4a21439173e61d0501405d9781@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50b2605d8019abeca502bdb1d916d587@felloff.net>
On Fri Apr 25 11:52:48 EDT 2014, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> 9front pc and pc64 kernels can be loaded by multiboot loader like grub (thanks
> to aiju). plan9.ini can be passed as a module. it uses the multiboot memory map
> as well. theres no program to read in the gpt partition table yet but that should
> be easy. all you need is a small program to parse the gpt and write text to /dev/sdXX/ctl.
*all* the pc kernels, except for the nix kernel, do multiboot. i removed
multiboot from nix. it's just so ugly. perhaps a bad decision. but there
is sadly a tradeoff between taste and compatability.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-25 7:41 Jens Staal
2014-04-25 13:34 ` erik quanstrom
2014-04-25 15:43 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-04-25 15:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-04-25 16:10 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-04-25 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2014-04-28 17:05 Daryl M
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