From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp3.ugent.be ([157.193.49.127]) by pp; Sun Dec 7 00:43:11 EST 2014 Received: from localhost (mcheck2.ugent.be [157.193.49.249]) by smtp3.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C281FC3FA for <9front@9front.org>; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:43:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by UGent DICT Received: from smtp3.ugent.be ([IPv6:::ffff:157.193.49.127]) by localhost (mcheck2.UGent.be [::ffff:157.193.43.11]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id h4ONG_yK0UmH for <9front@9front.org>; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:43:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.dmbr.UGent.be (cp0242.irc.ugent.be [157.193.189.5]) by smtp3.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4369FC3A9 for <9front@9front.org>; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:43:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from krypton.localnet (178-117-185-26.access.telenet.be [178.117.185.26]) by smtp.dmbr.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A3611D25 for <9front@9front.org>; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:41:43 +0100 (CET) From: Jens Staal 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 Message-ID: <3130869.f6Pr36KUsM@krypton> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: transactional general-purpose CMS rails extension extension locator Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.4-1-ck; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart6883939.vWcsYRifO9" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Miltered: at jchkm3 with ID 5483E8E4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://helpdesk.ugent.be/email/)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 5483E8E4.000 from cp0242.irc.ugent.be/cp0242.irc.ugent.be/157.193.189.5/smtp.dmbr.UGent.be/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 5483E8E4.000 on smtp3.ugent.be : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=# B=0.000 -> S=0.083 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart6883939.vWcsYRifO9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" --nextPart6883939.vWcsYRifO9 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="forwarded message" Content-Description: Jens Staal : Re: [9front] Booting EFI (or work-arounds to install 9front on GPT partition)? From: Jens Staal 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> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: transactional general-purpose CMS rails extension extension locator Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.4-1-ck; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <280ca955aaed6cb14390b23feddec694@sigma.offblast.org> References: <5454299.WklWF47Z7a@krypton> <280ca955aaed6cb14390b23feddec694@sigma.offblast.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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. --nextPart6883939.vWcsYRifO9--