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9boot(8): document efi booting

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.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
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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
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.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).