Oct 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Sergio Trejo wrote:
> I have a Late 2006 Intel Xserve which has Apple's 32-bit EFI firmware. Its a
> 2 x 2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon). The CPUs are 64-bit capable (as is evidence
> when Mac OS X Server boots this Xserve and its capable of using 64-bit kexts
> -- not to mention some OS X native programs that are 64-bit capable are
> capable of running 64-bit as reflected in Activity Monitor where the Kind
> shows up for some processes as "Intel (64 bit))"). I need to boot my Xserve
> natively (bare metal, no virtual machines) into a 64-bit Linux distro such
> as but not limited to Ubuntu. I know its possible to boot and run 32-bit
> Ubuntu Linux on this Xserve as I have done this historically. For the life
> of me, I can't believe that there's not some sort of workaround so that I
> can boot 64-bit Linux despite the 32-bit EFI. Has anyone ever tried doing
> this?

http://www.devheads.net/linux/fedora/user/how-get-64bit-fedora-32bit-efi-mac.htm
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