Hi,
I tried rEFIt with grub and lilo and it didn't work because the xserve firmware
does not support BIOS compat.
Then I tried rEFIt launching elilo, after all, elilo is another efi appl. that
can be launched from rEFIt.
Then I tried elilo alone.
In both cases, it looked like the kernel was launched but it didn't boot. I
suspect there is some incompatibility between framebuffer and the luck of BIOS
support but I am not sure.
I tried all combination without success. I think elilo with a kernel that
supports Apple EFI firmware should work but I couldn't get it working.
Thanks for you reply
----- Original Message ----
From: Samuli Seppänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:25:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Intel xserve
I'm a bit confused... so you're trying to launch elilo from rEFIT,
right? From what I've gathered Elilo is an EFI bootloader, just like
rEFIT. You can boot Linux with Elilo without ever even touching rEFIT. I
don't know if you can boot MacOS X from within Elilo, probably not. You
can also make rEFIT launch another (MBR/BIOS) bootloader, like Lilo or
Grub. This is what I do. If BIOS emulation is not available, using Elilo
is the only choice, unless rEFIT can be made to boot Linux directly. I
haven't heard of anyone booting Linux directly from rEFIT. I guess you'd
have to dump rEFIT (and OS X) and just install elilo and use that to
boot you Xserve.
> I agree on the beauty of opensource.
>
> However, I tried several kernels and the farest I got was launching
> elilo with rEFIt and then, when it looked like it was giving control
> to the kernel the screen froze. I didn't see any output from the
> kernel so I believe it was some incompatibility between the kernel and
> the firmware.
>
> I tried several times with different options and I stopped wondering
> whether that was even possible.
>
> BTW, I also tried to boot from usb and cdrom and I couldn't, elilo was
> never found neither by rEFIt or Apple firmware.
>
> Has anybody tried and succeed running linux on an intel xserve natively?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Miguel Sousa Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: guindior guindior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:07:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Intel xserve
>
> You can!
> Just have a look at the first linux images available for macintel, on
> macintel..
> It used efi, and elilo to boot up. IIRC.
>
> Alternatively, you can build a bootable efi/elilo linux usbkey/cdrom
> by yourself.
> That's part of the beauty of opensource, you have all the code/tools
> needed to do it by yourself, it just takes: time, pacience and
> willpower.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> On 6/20/07, guindior guindior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > intel xserves hardware offers a great quality/value relationship so
> people
> > can consider it to replace their current linux servers hardware and to
> > re-purpose it to macos in case of need.
> >
> > I tried several times to run linux on it without any success. BIOS
> > compatibility is not available on intel xserver.
> > The only way I can think of running it is having elilo and a kernel
> > compatible with efi and apple firmware extensions.
> > I could not get any of those.
> > Could anyone get that?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Brent Hensarling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:27:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Intel xserve
> >
> > On 16/06/07, Brent Hensarling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey everyone, has anyone tried or had any luck at all getting any
> version
> > of linux installed on the intel xserves?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brent
> >
> > hi Brent. i remember seeing an email a while ago asking the same
> thing, but
> > iirc it didn't garner any public responses. but i guess you knew that
> > already cuz you searched the list's history, right? =)
> >
> > i'm curious as to why you want to run GNU/Linux on an xserve.
> > -Nick
> >
> >
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