From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261327AbULAQqM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:46:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261328AbULAQqM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:46:12 -0500 Received: from s1.mailresponder.info ([193.24.237.10]:2052 "EHLO s1.mailresponder.info") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261327AbULAQqK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:46:10 -0500 Subject: Re: setting up EFI on x86 From: Mathieu Fluhr To: Daniel Dickman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <41ADD53F.9090307@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Ahead Software AG. Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:41:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1101919288.1047.14.camel@c-l-175> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). > Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by John Ashcroft. > 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ --