Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: G??t Andr??s <andrej@antiszoc.hu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 Message-ID: <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <CAGMYy3s2t97OZ-yJ7tE_1gHa61nPAu_wYkR8yU4C-j-Y=ze8oQ@mail.gmail.com> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu>
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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... ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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