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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2014 12:45:18 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 2014 hardware overview
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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