Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-16 Thread Chris
I felt I should finalize this before the thread goes to archives. My original post was to find out if there was a way to get FreeBSD to boot and run natively on the Intel XServe. It's a no go. rEFIt, while part of a solution, can't make up for the complete lack of BIOS support, EFI boot is only

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 June 2010 17:50, Chris wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: >> >> EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as >> an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot. >> There are instru

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-06 Thread Chris
On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot. There are instructions available on creating such an installation fo

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
On 6 June 2010 12:09, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: > >> >>>  Thanks for the response. >> >> That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit >> it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Apple article >> in their support pages dat

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: > >> Thanks for the response. > > That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit > it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Apple article > in their support pages dated November 19, 2008. Firmware update > is required and

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-05 Thread Chris
On Jun 5, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Chris Rees wrote: Perhaps you need to install Boot Camp. The booting procedure is EFI, maybe that's playing havoc. Thanks for the response. That would be a great solution, I read that Apple doesn't permit it to be installed on the XServe. That comes from an Ap

Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0

2010-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
Perhaps you need to install Boot Camp. The booting procedure is EFI, maybe that's playing havoc. On 5 Jun 2010 03:37, "Chris" wrote: I have two new Xserves (last years units, 2.8 quad cores). After fighting with OSX for two months, I decided to see if I could install FreeBSD since that is what w