Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:55:23 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> To: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD on MacBook Pro w/ Core 2 Duo? (was Re: Which OS for notebook) Message-ID: <AANLkTikCUb3uwP-ULPmNguVMU4Txa_yd75eKhpyQ=-C=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1286883599.2865.1399617949@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <AANLkTin644c3dZ0NNbJzeqXvuyLwTF67Ed=zJSoM9w6g@mail.gmail.com> <20101009175535.GA1567@hogwarts.local> <AANLkTikeAW9BN_M7qHWsQ2ytf4k_F0KAuirdyBgCoiAs@mail.gmail.com> <1286883599.2865.1399617949@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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ia64 is for Intel Itanium - NOT Core 2 Duo. The core 2 duo extends it's 64 bit instructions from the Intel EMT64 extensions. You can read up on this topic further at Wikipedia if you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMT64#Intel_64 To summarize though - AMD64 is the platform you're looking for. Since AMD was first to come to market with an i386 compatible instruction set supporting 64bit addressing, you'll find a lot of systems reference 'amd64' as the platform. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:20 -0500, "Brandon Gooch" > <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Arvid Warnecke > > <arvid.warnecke@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have been thinking about FreeBSD on the Macbook Pro dual booting (I > > > need Mac OSX for photography software), but I am not sure if the > > > hardware will be supported that well. > > > > Here's an excellent place to start your research: > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook > > I'd posted a question about this to this list a couple of weeks ago, but > without a descriptive title. Apologies for that, and hoping a more > descriptive title plus a more detailed message on my part elicits more > specific answers. > > I've got a 13" MacBook Pro, version 5,5 specifically, with an Intel Core > 2 Duo CPU and 4GB RAM (and a 256GB SSD, though I'm reasonably sure > that's not problematic). I'm dual booting Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4 > and Win 7 64-bit using rEFIt. > > I want to install FreeBSD as a 3rd OS alongside OS X and Win. Here are > a couple of questions that arose during my research: > > - I'd like to run a 64-bit version of FreeBSD. My reading on the > FreeBSD website appears to indicate that the correct 64-bit version for > the Core 2 Duo would be ia-64, and IIRC the website references indicated > problems running X.Org on that platform. Additionally, problems are > mentioned with various (unnamed) other ports. I do want to use FreeBSD > as a desktop. Is the info about problems with X.Org and other ports on > ia-64 current and correct, ruling out its use as a desktop on the > MacBook Pro for now? Am I correct in thinking from what I've read that > the amd-64 version of FreeBSD would not work with the Core 2 Duo? Does > this leave 32-bit FreeBSD as the only version I could reasonably install > to use as a desktop on this machine? > > - If I follow the plain install instructions on the wiki page linked in > the quoted message above (after first making space for FreeBSD using the > Mac OS X disk utility), will rEFIt Just Work, i.e., recognize FreeBSD > and include it as an option in its boot menu? Or is there something > else I've got to do? > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer on these questions. > Comments on other 'gotcha' items I may have missed are also welcome. > > Jud > -- > "I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." - > Douglas Adams > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com (519) 962-9987 (Canada) (313) 586-1982 (USA)
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