Booting Xserve on 8.0

[Chris Rees]

On 6 June 2010 17:50, Chris <eagletree at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris <eagletree at hughes.net> wrote:
>>
>> EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as
>> an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot.
>> There are instructions available on creating such an installation
>> for linux variants. They don't seem to apply to FreeBSD or I haven't
>> the knowledge to create such an installation.
>>
>>
>> Well if you want to run BSD on it, I suggest NetBSD.  They use rEFIt for
>> it.
>> http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_install_NetBSD_on_an_Apple_Macbook_w/core2duo
>>
>> I would say there is even some reasonable hope it that it would work well.
>>  I'm no expert thought so you could try asking over there.
>>
>
> Adam and Chris, Thank you, you both are on the solution if it works.
>
> rEFIt at refit.sourceforge.net was one of the solutions that looked
> promising, only with FreeBSD. I will try this.
>
> Anyone interested, feel free to contact me off-list on progress or
> especially
> if interested in cooperative discovery on whether this will work or not.
>
> Thanks again for the responses.

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