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
On 6 June 2010 17:50, Chris wrote:
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> On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
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>> 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
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
On 6 June 2010 12:09, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
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>>> Thanks for the response.
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>> 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
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote:
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>> Thanks for the response.
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> 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
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
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
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 we have always run on our 10 servers
since the 90s (and those two months would have been over in two
days had we had FreeBSD from the st
