Thanks tons -- that ought to work out just great (not trivial but worth the effort for those of us with orphaned Xserves)!
-Serg On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Sergio Trejo wrote: > > 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? > > I'd be a bit surprised if there's a spin that takes this hardware into > account, but it appears to be possible. You just need grub2-efi_i686 > instead of x86_64. And some familiarity with grub2 and the boot sequence > since I think your 2006 XServe is EFI booting only, and does not have a CSM. > > The 32-bit version of Grub2 will boot an x86_64 version of the Linux > kernel. Here's another resource with a rough step by step but some of these > steps I find unnecessary. Per usual there are 9 ways to do anything in > Linux, with each way having numerous derivatives. > > > http://fedorasolved.org/Members/jmontleon/installing-fedora-16-on-macbooks-using-grub2-efi > > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
