From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 05:39:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569C7106564A for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:39:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FF38FC08 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.43]) by QMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id m5fQ1h0030vyq2s5B5fs23; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:39:52 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id m5fr1h00J1t3BNj3R5fsXi; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:39:52 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B915102C1C; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: G??t Andr??s Message-ID: <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:39:53 -0000 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:15:26AM +0200, G??t Andr??s wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, G??t Andr??s > >wrote: > >>Dear All, > >> > >>I'd like to install FreeBSD onto az IBM X3550 M3 which looks > >>like UEFI only. > >>Is it possible to have FreeBSD amd64 get working on it or should > >>I forget > >>it? :( > > > >Will it do traditional MBR boot by any chance? As a last resort > >workaround, it might be possible to take its hard drive to another > >system and install grub which will boot FreeBSD but supports EFI. > > > >(We should implement EFI on amd64 by the way). > > > >Cheers, > > Take the hard drive out is not really an option because of the M5014 > HW RAID and the SAS backplane. :) > > Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I > think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in > the evening. It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a RAID controller to boot from one of its underlying drives. I guess there's only one way to find out... ;-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |