Re: boot from efi on x86_64

[thockin]

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:40:13PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> 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.

but did it use GRUB or elilo ?
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