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On 7/1/2004 1:07 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:

> PS: By the way I have read from mailing list that 
> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2004-June/000499.html) 
> there is an EFI partition. What is EFI anyway? Or is there an 
> installation guide for FreeBSD on ia64 archs? By the way on that mail 
> EFI is not created hope that doesn't happen to me too ....

EFI = extensible firmware interface.

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/

I'd suggest putting FreeBSD on a separate disk for now until all the issues with multiboot are fixed.

	-Arun