i386 EFI motherboard and FreeBSD 6

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 10 June 2006 04:21, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 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.

-- 
John Baldwin