On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:05 +0200, Gót András wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:39:50 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:15:26AM +0200, G??t Andr??s wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:16:54 -0700, Xin LI wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, G??t Andr??s <and...@antiszoc.hu>
>wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I'd like to install FreeBSD onto az IBM X3550 M3 which looks
>>like UEFI only.
>>Is it possible to have FreeBSD amd64 get working on it or should
>>I forget
>>it? :(
>
>Will it do traditional MBR boot by any chance? As a last resort
>workaround, it might be possible to take its hard drive to another
>system and install grub which will boot FreeBSD but supports EFI.
>
>(We should implement EFI on amd64 by the way).
>
>Cheers,
Take the hard drive out is not really an option because of the
M5014
HW RAID and the SAS backplane. :)
Anyway I found a "Rehook INT 19: disabled" setup option which, I
think, simply disables legacy BIOS booting. I'll give it a try in
the evening.
It's more likely that it provides the interrupt hook to getting a
RAID
controller to boot from one of its underlying drives. I guess
there's
only one way to find out... ;-)
The M5014 RAID is also UEFI aware and of course I only made the
initial disk group and volume group config on it. :)
Yes, the moment of truth will come this evening. I hope I'll be able
got FreeBSD working on the machine and I don't have to go on with
Linux.
For the record. I also found something about someone couldn't even
boot Windows Server install CD on this machine and he had to update
to
firmware. There's also something about OpenBSD that went with a clean
install, but after the it freezes randomly.
Andras
Thank you for all the tips. Fortunately it turned out to be simple.
Finally, I got an USB DVD drive from my father and that made the trick.
Memstick image or unetbootin pendrive installs won't work as it looks
like. However, if I can help with testing memstick images I can do it
until Oct 25. The unfortunate is that there not a single error about the
memstick, it simply doesn't work. I also tried Ubuntu Lucid CD image
written (with startup disk creator) to a pendrive and that also worked.
First I tried 9-BETA3, but that failed with cannot mount root error.
(Sorry I couldn't save the exact error message.)
Then I thought I'll give a try to the 8.2-RELEASE. That worked out of
the box with the RAID card and everything. The next big question is how
easily will I install the 2 146GB disks that were left off the package.
:) I'm going to find out it on Friday evening.
Regards,
Andras
Andras
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