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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:55:16 +0100
From:      CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
To:        Teng Zhang <zhangteng331@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD i386 on AMD64
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Teng Zhang <zhangteng331@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,everybody , i want to know whether it's possible to run FreeBSD
> i386(non UEFI)on AMD64 platform(my machine is Thinkpad T420, includes UEFI)
> or not. Could you please tell me?

This will work, no problem, except for standard i386 limitations like
RAM amount and disk sizes..

FreeBSD (maybe only AMD64) can also overcome some i386/BIOS
limitations like disk size even when booted with no UEFI capable
hardware :-)

Tomek

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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