[9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
Hi, I was trying to bring up 9front on another machine I have (Lenovo Thinkstation P620 with a Threadripper Pro 3955WX), and I hang right after the "boot\n" output of the EFI loader. Any suggestions on how to debug this? Is there a simple way to just build the EFI and 9fat partitions on a USB s

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread ori
Quoth Paul Lalonde : > Hi, > I was trying to bring up 9front on another machine I have (Lenovo > Thinkstation P620 with a Threadripper Pro 3955WX), and I hang right after > the "boot\n" output of the EFI loader. > > Any suggestions on how to debug this? Is there a simple way to just build > the

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread Jacob Moody
On 1/27/25 11:34, Paul Lalonde wrote: > Hi,  >   I was trying to bring up 9front on another machine I have (Lenovo > Thinkstation P620 with a Threadripper Pro 3955WX), and I hang right after the > "boot\n" output of the EFI loader. > > Any suggestions on how to debug this?  Is there a simple way

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
Thank Ori and Moody. I've started walking through making my custom iso and efi partition. Reasonably straightforward, though I get this error when building: fluxcpu% disk/mk9660 -c9j -B pc/9bootiso -E efi/efiboot.fat -v 'Plan 9 Front ('^$objtype^')' /tmp/test.iso warning: boot image too big; will

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread David Leimbach via 9fans
I put rEFIt on my dell and boot it from thereSent from my iPhoneOn Jan 27, 2025, at 11:29 AM, Paul Lalonde wrote:Thank Ori and Moody.I've started walking through making my custom iso and efi partition.  Reasonably straightforward, though I get this error when building:fluxcpu% disk/mk9660 -c9j -B

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread ron minnich
"We have had reports of some machines having buggy EFI firmware ..." wow, I hear that a *lot* :-) On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM David Leimbach via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > I put rEFIt on my dell and boot it from there > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 27, 2025, at 11:29 AM, Paul Lalond

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread ori
Quoth ron minnich : > "We have had reports of some machines having buggy EFI firmware ..." > > wow, I hear that a *lot* :-) > It would be exceptional to hear about a not visibly buggy EFI firmware. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gr

Re: [9fans] 9front USB EFI Boot hang

2025-01-27 Thread Bakul Shah via 9fans
9front came up fine under bhyve (uses efi). Last install from 9front-10522.amd64.iso > On Jan 27, 2025, at 6:07 PM, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth ron minnich : >> "We have had reports of some machines having buggy EFI firmware ..." >> >> wow, I hear that a *lot* :-) >> > > It would be