of time to
work on it.
Daryl
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 5:00 AM
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Subject: 9fans Digest, Vol 120, Issue 38
From: Jens Staal
Subject: [9fans] GPT partitions
On Fri Apr 25 12:12:05 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> there was a multiboot header there but it didnt work. the problem is that
> multiboot
> loader doesnt align the data segment of the kernel image to page size. the
> kernel
> needs to move the data segment early before entering mai
there was a multiboot header there but it didnt work. the problem is that
multiboot
loader doesnt align the data segment of the kernel image to page size. the
kernel
needs to move the data segment early before entering main().
--
cinap
On Fri Apr 25 11:52:48 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> 9front pc and pc64 kernels can be loaded by multiboot loader like grub (thanks
> to aiju). plan9.ini can be passed as a module. it uses the multiboot memory
> map
> as well. theres no program to read in the gpt partition table yet
9front pc and pc64 kernels can be loaded by multiboot loader like grub (thanks
to aiju). plan9.ini can be passed as a module. it uses the multiboot memory map
as well. theres no program to read in the gpt partition table yet but that
should
be easy. all you need is a small program to parse the gpt
> Does any of the Plan9 variants support booting from a GPT partition nowadays?
> I have not experimented with EFI boot yet on my primary OS but as far as I
> have read, this could also avoid chainloading bootloaders - any experience
> with this?
>
> I am also interested in the 64-bit HDD imag
Dear all,
I am interested in moving from running Plan9 in a VM to (try to) running on
bare metal but since I am on a laptop with a single HDD and I play around with
a couple of different things, I need to use GPT instead of MBR to avoid the
silly 4 partition limit (since Plan9 can not be on an
