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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:04:49 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        Liste FreeBSD-fr Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd-fr.org>, Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net>
Subject:   Re: i386 EFI motherboard and FreeBSD 6
Message-ID:  <200606120904.50256.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <58A8328D-826A-4800-BDFF-DB67ADF275A3@patpro.net>
References:  <58A8328D-826A-4800-BDFF-DB67ADF275A3@patpro.net>

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On Saturday 10 June 2006 04:21, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm thinking about buying an Intel motherboard with Xeon LV  
> (Sossaman) to run FreeBSD. This board uses EFI instead of "regular"  
> BIOS. Is it possible to boot FreeBSD 6 for i386 (sossaman is 32 bits  
> proc.) on an EFI based motherboard ?

FreeBSD/i386 doesn't support EFI yet, only FreeBSD/ia64 does.  Are you sure 
the motherboard requires EFI and doesn't also provide a BIOS interface of 
some sort (perhaps on top of EFI)?  If it does that, then FreeBSD/i386 will 
boot fine using the BIOS interface.

-- 
John Baldwin



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