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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] problem with installing plan9 from USB disk image
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:21:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5gtjnjqmbFxwPhqDM0W315YFgzQ6BGYzq1ni4-YSYnRdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5ju-i6ZuB29qivsTiVD3_kReNrW08y0NuG46hkNFgWh3A@mail.gmail.com>

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That reminds me that this
https://retrage.github.io/2020/08/01/9pfspkg-en.html looked quite
interesting but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:20 PM Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I see that 9front has had some UEFI boot support for 6 years.
> I use an earlier version of their iplpxe on my 64-bit cpu servers (not
> booting 9front).
> I did use the iplfat and ipliso as well to boot other kernels.
> When I've got a moment I might diff to see what changes I made.
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:08 PM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>
>> >  1. Dual booting is not possible
>> >  2. UEFI introduced vulnerabilities ...
>> 
>> Don't these two things cancel each other out? Can we not use
>> the same vulnerabilities to induce the firmware to boot our
>> own choice of operating system? It wouldn't be the first time
>> Plan 9 was installed using ... shall we say unofficial methods?
>> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-26 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-25  9:53 saif.resun
2021-03-25 20:14 ` Richard Miller
2021-03-25 20:30   ` saif.resun
2021-03-25 20:40     ` Richard Miller
2021-03-25 20:51     ` saif.resun
2021-03-25 20:56       ` Richard Miller
2021-03-26  5:46         ` saif.resun
2021-03-26  6:53           ` Alexander Kapshuk
2021-03-26  7:35             ` Lucio De Re
2021-03-26  7:53               ` saif.resun
2021-03-26  8:34                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-03-26  8:36                   ` saif.resun
2021-03-26  9:39                     ` saif.resun
2021-03-26 10:03                     ` Richard Miller
2021-03-26 13:20                     ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-03-26 13:27                       ` hiro
2021-03-26 16:06                         ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-03-26 16:12                           ` hiro
2021-03-26 17:26                             ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-03-26 18:20                               ` hiro
2021-03-26 19:51                                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-03-26 15:07                       ` Richard Miller
2021-03-26 15:20                         ` Charles Forsyth
2021-03-26 15:21                           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2021-03-28 11:32                             ` Lucio De Re
2021-03-26 16:18                       ` Kurt H Maier
2021-03-26 16:27                         ` Wes Kussmaul
2021-03-27 23:14                           ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-28  7:28                             ` sirjofri
2021-03-26 10:03                 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-03-26 11:01                 ` Lucio De Re

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