From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 07:03:07 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 5B1C3106566C for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:03:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrej@antiszoc.hu) Received: from mail.deployis.eu (mail.deployis.eu [217.20.135.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA948FC14 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:03:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=antiszoc.hu; s=default; h=Subject:To:From:Date; bh=L9gP4ROqhuaQWupFvTUKZG0QQBrNLgb7oRKNHkbyWEs=; b=jnnyXTNd1GN3Q8iYY0xfVXgBaCC4G8HdW1PJXlfaaDSK5XUWptjsX9sFtD7mqQnfh4VywG8WCFeiKjcLTX/Trjkmi03VpIR7fPQ+15xH5SHUOOdU2llfSCygI5Py1lLg; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45851 helo=mail.deployis.eu) by mail.deployis.eu with esmtp (Exim 4.71 #1 (Debian)) id 1RG3hZ-0006zm-2L from for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200 Received: from 131-75.95.80.dunakanyar.net ([80.95.75.131]) by mail.deployis.eu with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= To: In-Reply-To: <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> <20111018053950.GA7519@icarus.home.lan> Message-ID: <1071bcf29c69a494717348341155b792@antiszoc.hu> X-Sender: andrej@antiszoc.hu User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2.1 X-DKIM-Status: None (from 127.0.0.1) X-Mail-Status-postahivatal: trustedmail (from 127.0.0.1) X-Spam-Score-postahivatal: -43 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 07:03:07 -0000 On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 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... ;-) The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the initial disk group and volume group config on it. :) Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with Linux. For the record. I also found something about someone couldn't even boot Windows Server install CD on this machine and he had to update to firmware. There's also something about OpenBSD that went with a clean install, but after the it freezes randomly. Andras