Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:13:54 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Moran <amoran@forsythia.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on intel Mac Message-ID: <46AA5202.5020406@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <18088.61153.369771.398961@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <E0467B70-C0D1-42F7-A93A-24B34BEBF672@forsythia.net> <18088.61153.369771.398961@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Andrew Moran writes: > > > > Is it the case that I can install and boot freebsd on an intel mac > > (uses EFI, not BIOS) currently (without using Boot Camp), or do I > > have to wait until FreeBSD 7 for this functionality? > > There are various gotachs with Intel Macs: > > When you have an Apple GPT partitioned disk, you may need to install > from 6.x. This is because libdisk causes sysinstall to exit (leading to > "going nowhere without my init") when libdisk crashes with "BARF ...." > > You can't install a non-EFI native OS on an external firewire drive > and be able to boot it (at least on my iMac). I tried various > partition styles (pure MBR, plus MBR + GPT), booting by selecting > "windows" from the alt-key menu, booting via rEFIt, Ubuntu Fiesty in > addition to FreeBSD, etc. That's about 8 or 12 hours of my life I'll > never get back :( > > Is anybody working on an EFI loader? Well, I should be starting to think about it. At least during August. Regards. -- Rui Paulo
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