From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:45:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <581c7c996ac98030f016103202ca2438@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9056189f743b1e2104b5889f4cb40994@felloff.net>
On Sun Jun 29 14:21:20 EDT 2014, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> > 1) UEFI bios
> >
> > I know that 9load and friends can't handle UEFI bios, but
> > I'm guessing if it's possible to use GRUB and chainload
> > Plan9 when the bios is UEFI. Is that possible ?
>
> yes, this is possible. the plan9 kernel can be made a
> multiboot image and loaded by any multiboot loader like grub.
> some changes are needed for labs plan9 for this to work tho,
> mainly moving the data segment on page boundary when called
> from multiboot entry point and using the multiboot memory
> map and plan9.ini as initrd module. this works out of the box
> with 9front.
alternately a bios boot with uefi firmware will work. :-)
detection should be automatic.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-29 9:32 Pierre-Jean
2014-06-29 10:27 ` Nick Owens
2014-06-29 11:55 ` arisawa
2014-06-29 15:47 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-06-29 18:38 ` sl
2014-06-29 19:20 ` Jacob Todd
2014-06-29 18:11 ` Pierre-Jean
2014-06-29 21:46 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-01 8:23 ` Pierre-Jean
2014-07-01 14:20 ` balaji
2014-07-01 14:23 ` balaji
2014-07-01 15:02 ` David du Colombier
2014-07-01 16:13 ` Balaji
2014-07-02 15:29 ` David du Colombier
2014-07-02 19:15 ` Balaji
2014-07-03 6:13 ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-07 16:40 ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-29 12:09 ` Steve Simon
2014-06-29 18:19 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-07-07 16:45 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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