From: Mathieu Fluhr <mfluhr@nero.com>
To: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setting up EFI on x86
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:41:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101919288.1047.14.camel@c-l-175> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412011026560.4358@chaos.analogic.com>
Hello
EFI is basically used for the Intel Itanium processors, and I think if
your MB does not have such an EFI shell a startup, you will not be able
to use EFI.
Regards,
Mathieu
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 10:29 -0500, linux-os wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Daniel Dickman wrote:
>
> > I just got an older x86 desktop system and I wanted to learn about EFI
> > by booting the kernel using this instead of the older MBR-style boot
> > process. Does anyone know how I can set up such a system on x86?
> > Specifically, what tools can I use to create a GPT disk? Do I need a
> > special BIOS to do this?
> >
> > Thanks for any help with this.
> > -
>
> This is the new "thing" being pushed by WIN/Intel. I haven't seen
> any motherboards that support it yet. All the new ones that come
> into this place have a BIOS that loads the MBR and starts trucking
> from there.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-01 14:29 setting up EFI on x86 Daniel Dickman
2004-12-01 15:29 ` linux-os
2004-12-01 16:41 ` Mathieu Fluhr [this message]
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2004-12-01 15:13 Tolentino, Matthew E
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