Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:15:26 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM X3550 M3 Message-ID: <414c76008bd22841a6fac2d6522c02d9@antiszoc.hu> In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3s2t97OZ-yJ7tE_1gHa61nPAu_wYkR8yU4C-j-Y=ze8oQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <40ffd0a7af422c57cdac4e5a18d23e99@antiszoc.hu> <CAGMYy3s2t97OZ-yJ7tE_1gHa61nPAu_wYkR8yU4C-j-Y=ze8oQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Gót András <andrej@antiszoc.hu> > 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. Best, Andras
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