Re: 64-bit Linux on Mac with 32-bit EFI firmware?

Thanks tons -- that ought to work out just great (not trivial but worth the
effort for those of us with orphaned Xserves)!

-Serg

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Sergio Trejo wrote:
> > For the life
> > of me, I can't believe that there's not some sort of workaround so that I
> > can boot 64-bit Linux despite the 32-bit EFI. Has anyone ever tried doing
> > this?
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> I'd be a bit surprised if there's a spin that takes this hardware into
> account, but it appears to be possible. You just need grub2-efi_i686
> instead of x86_64. And some familiarity with grub2 and the boot sequence
> since I think your 2006 XServe is EFI booting only, and does not have a CSM.
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> The 32-bit version of Grub2 will boot an x86_64 version of the Linux
> kernel. Here's another resource with a rough step by step but some of these
> steps I find unnecessary. Per usual there are 9 ways to do anything in
> Linux, with each way having numerous derivatives.
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> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/jmontleon/installing-fedora-16-on-macbooks-using-grub2-efi
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