From: Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>
To: 9front <9front@9front.org>
Subject: Re: [9front] Booting EFI (or work-arounds to install 9front on GPT partition)?
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 06:42:57 +0100 [thread overview]
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From: Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>
To: mischief@9.offblast.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Booting EFI (or work-arounds to install 9front on GPT partition)?
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:16:36 +0100
Message-ID: <5372535.55CG3LncHs@krypton>
On Friday 05 December 2014 19:47:26 you wrote:
> jens,
>
> are you booting on a 386 system or amd64? what is the hardware?
amd64. The laptop is a few years old, an ASUS K73BR ( an E-450 APU)
>
> the 9boot prompt (the > where you give bootfile) is pretty simple, and you
> can only set variables. it cant do 'ls' or anything like that. if it cant
> find the bootfile it will take you back to the prompt iirc.
ah... ok.
> as for gpt, there's no gpt support yet. i have program to do gpt in a
> similar fashion to disk/fdisk, but it's not quite polished up or integrated
> into 9front. it does work though :)
>
Oh ok I was under the impression that it was included :) I switched to GPT
after some mbr f*ck ups and when I switched to GPT I took the opportunity to
also switch to UEFI and I am pretty happy with it (especially for booting
multiple systems - currently dual boot Arch and Alpine linux). Also, I never
really trusted extended partitions and the 4 primary partition limit of mbr is
quite annoying :)
Will there be an announcement / heads up when the GPT stuff is included?
> is it possible you can drop into an EFI shell on your system to find the
> bootfile?
>
it might be possible... on the other hand - perhaps it is just that simple
that it tries to boot a non-existing amd64 system on the media... perhaps I
should check that first.
> more information on EFI booting is in the 9boot(8) manual.
next reply other threads:[~2014-12-07 5:43 UTC|newest]
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2014-12-07 5:42 Jens Staal [this message]
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2014-12-05 16:58 Jens Staal
2014-12-06 0:47 ` [9front] " mischief
2014-12-06 11:19 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-12-07 5:55 ` Jens Staal
2014-12-07 13:53 ` cinap_lenrek
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