On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:09:57PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > 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 ? Both GRUB (Ubuntu 6.10/FC5/FC6) and standard LILO (Slackware 11). I guess BIOS compatability was turned on. -- Tomasz Torcz "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station [email protected] wagon filled with backup tapes." -- Jim Gray
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