Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:09:57 -0800 | From | thockin@hockin ... | Subject | Re: boot from efi on x86_64 |
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:40:13PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:07:03PM +0200, Dror Levin wrote: > > looking at the kernel source, after constant failures to boot linux on a core > > 2 imac, has made me understand that only i386 and ia64 support efi booting, > > but x86_64 does not. > > it makes sense, if you think about it... AFAIK, until the new core 2 imacs > > were out there was no x86_64 efi pc, so why should the kernel support it? > > Few days ago I played with Intel servers with EM64T Xeons (NetBurst > based). They are x86_64, and motherboard (Intel chipset) utilised EFI.
but did it use GRUB or elilo ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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