From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Staal To: "9fans@9fans.net" <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:41:32 +0200 Message-ID: <51796934.ZNMK5gL6qF@krypton> User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.14.1-1-ARCH; KDE/4.13.0; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Subject: [9fans] GPT partitions Topicbox-Message-UUID: db977b26-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Dear all, I am interested in moving from running Plan9 in a VM to (try to) running on bare metal but since I am on a laptop with a single HDD and I play around with a couple of different things, I need to use GPT instead of MBR to avoid the silly 4 partition limit (since Plan9 can not be on an extended partition). Does any of the Plan9 variants support booting from a GPT partition nowadays? I have not experimented with EFI boot yet on my primary OS but as far as I have read, this could also avoid chainloading bootloaders - any experience with this? I am also interested in the 64-bit HDD image from 9atom, but was never able to load that one with syslinux - so if anyone got any tips and tricks there that would also be cool.