Re: boot from efi on x86_64

From: Tomasz Torcz
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 15:49:56 EST


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:07:03PM +0200, Dror Levin wrote:
> looking at the kernel source, after constant failures to boot linux on a core
> 2 imac, has made me understand that only i386 and ia64 support efi booting,
> but x86_64 does not.
> it makes sense, if you think about it... AFAIK, until the new core 2 imacs
> were out there was no x86_64 efi pc, so why should the kernel support it?

Few days ago I played with Intel servers with EM64T Xeons (NetBurst
based). They are x86_64, and motherboard (Intel chipset) utilised EFI.

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