From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 17:24:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19C4106567C for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787C38FC26 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so1246277bwz.13 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:24:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A2Jna0iG7cAQ5HE2gVuOstGSSsD9VL/1BQAc/AHBQU4=; b=uuObalXdntzT0S4ulaZT9FreRNU9LQvDs/TishZ8HwuZi6SWX8H8yHz5lLwF0AJ4LX 1P3/utRa6Xsp406tSbCEnxCzUyse4kama8EpOZHcIAy1yIh05sLHHvIDhSL6H+fUJvqQ irMDXqAffGXsLv2oZUVLF5bQcEhvQA6YgDDhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZFoxb+4b41+XLRvY6NDbnOK/ny1wRvFztPCuL6PjuUaBx8nk/Xo5JbLaJK2UWHfDli U0AmojjqysCbUY5+HR7wpaRXFWUWuB5DQ48/yS09F9yxP3SaIHrX5tNEwX3uZyG7ueZI Wib7dTcwbH6L93BUhEmia8k+hJEzURnhzivPA= Received: by 10.204.138.91 with SMTP id z27mr5823505bkt.162.1275845053162; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:24:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.54.211 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:23:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85E4AD90-E5D0-47C1-AD7E-6F12F7C5B5E7@hughes.net> References: <9E15A9F3-F67E-4ECC-B1EC-99F65764F831@hughes.net> <63A8A75A-D0F6-4FC6-A1D6-784792B5BBB7@hughes.net> <85E4AD90-E5D0-47C1-AD7E-6F12F7C5B5E7@hughes.net> From: Chris Rees Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 18:23:43 +0100 Message-ID: To: Chris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:24:16 -0000 On 6 June 2010 17:50, Chris wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: >> >> EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as >> an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot. >> There are instructions available on creating such an installation >> for linux variants. They don't seem to apply to FreeBSD or I haven't >> the knowledge to create such an installation. >> >> >> Well if you want to run BSD on it, I suggest NetBSD. =A0They use rEFIt f= or >> it. >> http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_install_NetBSD_on_an_Apple_Macbook_w/core2d= uo >> >> I would say there is even some reasonable hope it that it would work wel= l. >> =A0I'm no expert thought so you could try asking over there. >> > > Adam and Chris, Thank you, you both are on the solution if it works. > > rEFIt at refit.sourceforge.net was one of the solutions that looked > promising, only with FreeBSD. I will try this. > > Anyone interested, feel free to contact me off-list on progress or > especially > if interested in cooperative discovery on whether this will work or not. > > Thanks again for the responses. I would recommend keeping discussion on-list, if you don't mind, because the Archives are incredibly useful to people trying to solve similar problems. We all learn from watching discussions on these lists, that's why we're subscribed! Of course, if you consider it confidential feel free to go off-list, it's your call. Chris