From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 19:15:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171A41065670 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carstenmattner@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5748FC0A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so12149021iah.13 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:15:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zjDyijA9N3g/aTQMFQq3iqs8jqifDVmHuhKyOgYyLMo=; b=JJKLjQgG+EaR0NENHReY7z+ZjwUNijsjTExbSjpjdKp0kFjfm+5/k6pwfx1TrjYMdU vSBg9XEqmbHpT/WjUGA2jO2T+/apgi5sYNjFCsKWDsxh1pMEqTNNl8pAdGq8x22RdlOx P0zJ1hrqb01X8BJY9nW5pWun2qQ6I+nnQrDtmv2A8Fu11uE2zOF6Xw6lVoS4gmhkSrM9 +7C9k2Vjpo7PgiU33+K8xEsBE9eXnsvVhy0ugWdrWofqf8UyrXoovOAgBezQrj24XIoc jwkk/Vaq5xrp8i4prniX+bnakC8ZMuRXhaKD/h5uPFWO7Q2VFuErvsJDA34CP4etkiGZ NUgg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.190.226 with SMTP id gt2mr12713314igc.32.1331147704495; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.111.132 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:15:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20311.38687.874857.590780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20311.38687.874857.590780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:15:04 +0100 Message-ID: From: Carsten Mattner To: hartzell@alerce.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single boot EFI Mac install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:15:05 -0000 On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:13 PM, George Hartzell wrote= : > Carsten Mattner writes: > =A0> Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD as a single boot system > =A0> on an EFI Mac? > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a single boot system. > > I have Mac Pro that runs Mac OS on on disk (actually a pair in a > software RAID) and FreeBSD from another pair (gmirror RAID). =A0I > suspect that I could pull the MacOS disks from the system and it would > happily run as a FreeBSD only machine. > > I believe that I set up the disks using the mac tools and then did an > install from a DVD, but it's been a while. > > The only particularly trick-ish part is that I had to partition the > FreeBSD disks using MBR style partitions, that's (part of?) what the > Mac firmware uses to decide to turn on it's PC-style BIOS emulation, > which FreeBSD needs before it can get itself going. =A0GPT partitions > will not work. =A0Every once in a while the machine hangs at boot time > but I haven't seen it in a while. > > What happens if you just throw a FreeBSD DVD in the drive? I'm pretty sure I can install FreeBSD. The real question is: Are there EFI bootable FreeBSD images? rEFIt works but cannot be convinced to stop delaying the boot process by ~20 seconds (even after deleting PRAM and bless'ing the partition). That's why I've been looking for native (EFI) boot options.