From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 02:28:33 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 32890106566B for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0213.b.hostedemail.com [64.98.42.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49218FC18 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (b-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay05.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A2FED2D94BAE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Panda: scanned! X-Spam-Summary: 2, -1.05263, 0, 760ee3d1be133250, d41d8cd98f00b204, eagletree@hughes.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:541:564:599:601:945:960:966:967:973:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1542:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2194:2196:2199:2200:2379:2393:2525:2553:2560:2564:2682:2685:2693:2857:2859:2892:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3027:3355:3636:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4030:4250:4385:4470:4860:5007:6119:7652:7679:7903:7980:8660:9010:9025:9036:9038:9040:9108:9388:10004:10016, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:fn, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none, Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-Session-Marker: 6561676C6574726565406875676865732E6E6574 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3655 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6682103093.direcpc.com [66.82.103.93]) (Authenticated sender: eagletree@hughes.net) by omf02.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <2BDED03E-3DEE-4914-994B-13FA3B8E7768@hughes.net> From: Chris To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:28:15 -0700 References: <9E15A9F3-F67E-4ECC-B1EC-99F65764F831@hughes.net> <63A8A75A-D0F6-4FC6-A1D6-784792B5BBB7@hughes.net> <85E4AD90-E5D0-47C1-AD7E-6F12F7C5B5E7@hughes.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Subject: Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:28:33 -0000 I felt I should finalize this before the thread goes to archives. My original post was to find out if there was a way to get FreeBSD to boot and run natively on the Intel XServe. It's a no go. rEFIt, while part of a solution, can't make up for the complete lack of BIOS support, EFI boot is only the beginning of the problem. Rui Paulo stated that kernel changes to FreeBSD will be required before it will be realistic to run. Watching his FreeBSD progress reports is probably the best source of status. On Jun 6, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > 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. They use >>> rEFIt for >>> it. >>> http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_install_NetBSD_on_an_Apple_Macbook_w/core2duo >>> >>> I would say there is even some reasonable hope it that it would >>> work well. >>> I'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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >