Re: multiboot module in grub2 --with-platform=efi --target=i386 - TestingOnXserve

[Bean]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Drew Rosen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Bean. Totally appreciate your help with this.
>
> I'm not familiar with the x86_64 support, and these notes were created 6
> months ago, but I thought they would be a good place to start... Don't
> hesitate to remove anything you think is misleading. I'm going to try to
> update it with better info as soon as possible.
>

Oh never mind, it would be nice if you can get it working, then there
is another efi platform supported by grub2.

> Also, please be clear, we are not talking about Xserver. I'm trying to run
> 64 Bit Linux on an Apple MacIntel Xserve.
>
> The systems I have are 2 x 2.66 Dual-Core Intel Xeon.
>

I don't know they're different, but I guess the efi firmware is more
or less the same.

> Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Bean wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> From the wiki page you put up, you're obvious not familiar with
>> grub2's efi support. x86_64-efi have been in grub2 for a long time,
>> you just need to know how to build it, take a look at this page:
>>
>> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook
>>
>> Also, you can check out this post at ubuntu forum:
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704
>>
>> D4T have successfully booted both 32-bit and 64-bit linux with Xserver
>> 1.1 and 1.2.
>>
>> BTW, please don't put anything you're not sure of to the wiki page,
>> it's misleading for other users.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Drew Rosen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> We're interested, I've got 30 Xserves that will be paper weights pretty
>>> soon
>>> if we don't get a 64 bit linux OS on them... rendering for 3d fx in
>>> movies.
>>>
>>> I'll try to start a http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnXserve page shortly to
>>> combine all the info we've gathered so far.
>>
>> --
>> Bean
>>
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Bean