Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:00:08 +0200 From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386 EFI motherboard and FreeBSD 6 Message-ID: <41ADB1F2-A178-4DB2-AD2D-595C2EEEE0FC@patpro.net> In-Reply-To: <200606120904.50256.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <58A8328D-826A-4800-BDFF-DB67ADF275A3@patpro.net> <200606120904.50256.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 12 juin 06, at 15:04, John Baldwin wrote: >> 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. Well, in fact I'm not sure, the documentation for motherboard SE7520BB2D2 mentions both BIOS and EFI, and I was not aware one could mix both on a motherboard. I've just asked the support at Intel about the Bios/EFI mix. Intel lists the following OSes in the compatibility chart for this motherboard: Microsoft Windows* Server 2003 (Standard & Enterprise versions with SP1) IA-32 bit version only Compatibility & Stress RedHat* Linux Enterprise 4 (latest update) IA-32 bit only Compatibility & Stress RedHat* Enterprise Linux 3 (latest update) IA-32 bit only Install Only SuSE* Enterprise Linux 9 (latest update) IA-32 bit only Compatibility & Stress Novell NetWare* 6.5 (latest update) Install Only patpro
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