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. -- Tomasz Torcz "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station [email protected] wagon filled with backup tapes." -- Jim Gray
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