From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:57:46 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <42946d4a21439173e61d0501405d9781@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <50b2605d8019abeca502bdb1d916d587@felloff.net> References: <50b2605d8019abeca502bdb1d916d587@felloff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GPT partitions Topicbox-Message-UUID: dbc93a44-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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