Apple Xserve running Fedora

2009-08-03 Thread drew rosen
Hi Guys. We're under a deadline to get our Xserve's running fedora. Looking forward to signing into the IRC to get some help pushing thru the EFI issues. Does anyone have any fresh tips / newest file we should use? Thanks. -- ---- Drew Rosen drew.

Re: Xserve specs

2009-05-14 Thread Drew Rosen
I think you've been swindled by Apple's marketing prowess... On May 14, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Chip Panarchy wrote: That's it? I though that the Xserve's were meant to be really powerful... On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Drew Rosen wrote: Hi Guys. Here's our m

Xserve specs

2009-05-14 Thread Drew Rosen
oon as I have access to it again :) Regards, Chris Drew Rosen wrote: Hi Everybody. Can someone give a newbie grub person some instructions / links for the latest/best grub to use in an attempt to get a linux OS running well on the Apple Xserve Serve

latest grub for xserve tests

2009-05-14 Thread Drew Rosen
Hi Everybody. Can someone give a newbie grub person some instructions / links for the latest/best grub to use in an attempt to get a linux OS running well on the Apple Xserve Server MacIntel. Thanks! ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.or

Re: [PATCH] bless command

2009-04-19 Thread Drew Rosen
I'd also like to help test this as I have a first gen macintel mac pro that needs to run centos. It was difficult to get a 2nd gen machine to see the os drive last time I loaded centos... --- Drew Rosen On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: Hello, thank you fo

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

2009-04-15 Thread Drew Rosen
ntuforums.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 wrote: We're

Re: no commit allowed under discussion

2009-04-14 Thread Drew Rosen
Hi Peter Cros, If you need anyone to run tests on the Xserve, I have a score of machines that we want to use on Linux... On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Peter Cros wrote: Hi, It will be good to get this resolved and on SVN grub2 so people (ubuntuforums) can build for Apple efi with the latest

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

2009-04-14 Thread Drew Rosen
Hi Uzer Cheg. Any progress on the Xserve? On Mar 18, 2009, at 6:22 AM, uzer cheg wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to run Xen Dom0 kernel on my Xserve. As I see I need Grub's entry like this: menuentry "Xen 3.3 unstable -i386 { search --set /boot/xen-3.3.gz multiboot /boot/xen-3.3.gz module

Re: [PATCH] bug fix for x86_64 efi

2009-02-27 Thread Drew Rosen
rrent grub.efi test result to point to problems specific to the Xserve, sufficient to attract help at developer level. There are also some graphics limitations (use of framebuffer driver) after EFI linux booting for other intel macs, might be important for your application. On Sun, Feb 22, 20

Re: [PATCH] bug fix for x86_64 efi

2009-02-21 Thread Drew Rosen
linux on other Apple intel Macs with varying results . There are some grub.efi 64/32 bit test packages on ubuntuforums that you might try (include the patch) . Xserve results would be interesting. grub2 EFI boot loader internal/external booting On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Drew R

Re: [PATCH] bug fix for x86_64 efi

2009-02-20 Thread Drew Rosen
Hi Peter / phcoder / all other grub gurus, I've joined the grub-devel mail list while attempting to get MacIntel Xserves to boot linux. I work with a 3d Movie Effects company that has 25 MacIntel Xserves that are becoming close to as useful as paperweights because they can't run Maya at 64b