i386 EFI motherboard and FreeBSD 6
Patrick Proniewski
patpro at patpro.net
Mon Jun 12 14:00:12 UTC 2006
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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