Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 Message-ID: <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu> In-Reply-To: <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <CAGMYy3s2t97OZ-yJ7tE_1gHa61nPAu_wYkR8yU4C-j-Y=ze8oQ@mail.gmail.com> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:15:26AM +0200, G??t Andr??s wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote: >> >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, G??t Andr??s <andrej@antiszoc.hu> >> >wrote: >> >>Dear All, >> >> >> >>I'd like to install FreeBSD onto az IBM X3550 M3 which looks >> >>like UEFI only. >> >>Is it possible to have FreeBSD amd64 get working on it or should >> >>I forget >> >>it? :( >> > >> >Will it do traditional MBR boot by any chance? As a last resort >> >workaround, it might be possible to take its hard drive to another >> >system and install grub which will boot FreeBSD but supports EFI. >> > >> >(We should implement EFI on amd64 by the way). >> > >> >Cheers, >> >> Take the hard drive out is not really an option because of the M5014 >> HW RAID and the SAS backplane. :) >> >> Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I >> think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in >> the evening. > > It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a > RAID > controller to boot from one of its underlying drives. I guess > there's > only one way to find out... ;-) The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the initial disk group and volume group config on it. :) Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with Linux. For the record. I also found something about someone couldn't even boot Windows Server install CD on this machine and he had to update to firmware. There's also something about OpenBSD that went with a clean install, but after the it freezes randomly. Andras
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