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| author | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2014-10-19 21:55:19 +0200 |
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| committer | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2014-10-19 21:55:19 +0200 |
| commit | dfe8c8bffb497ecd46e9e43eb838ff3e10912663 (patch) | |
| tree | 54110cbcf9443c9e6ec10232782cfc460e8fea48 | |
| parent | d91fe5b38b0dcc8673427282e5b83ebca6d06fd3 (diff) | |
| download | plan9front-dfe8c8bffb497ecd46e9e43eb838ff3e10912663.tar.xz | |
9boot(8): document efi booting
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/8/9boot | 26 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/8/9boot b/sys/man/8/9boot index df0d88ae8..5e778906f 100644 --- a/sys/man/8/9boot +++ b/sys/man/8/9boot @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH 9BOOT 8 .SH NAME -9bootfat, 9bootiso, 9bootpxe \- PC bootloader for FAT, ISO and PXE network booting +9bootfat, 9bootiso, 9bootpxe, bootia32.efi, bootx64.efi \- PC bootloader for FAT, ISO and PXE network booting .SH SYNOPSIS Started by PC BIOS or chainloaded by partition bootsector .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -90,6 +90,21 @@ is the MAC address of the client's network card in lower case hex, and uses this as its .IR plan9.ini (8) file. +.SH EFI BOOTING +EFI firmware looks for the files +.B bootia32.efi +(for 386) +or +.B bootx64.efi +(for amd64) +in the directory +.B /efi/boot +of the EFI boot partition and executes them. +Once started, the file +.B /plan9.ini +is read from the boot partition and interpretated in +the same way as with +BIOS booting. .SH FILES .B /386/pbs .br @@ -98,9 +113,18 @@ file. .B /386/9bootiso .br .B /386/9bootpxe +.br +.B /386/bootia32.efi +.br +.B /386/bootx64.efi +.br .SH SOURCE .BR /sys/src/boot/pc +.br +.BR /sys/src/boot/efi +.br .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR plan9.ini (8) .SH HISTORY 9boot first appeared in 9front (April, 2011). +EFI support first appeared in 9front (Oct, 2014). |