Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:26:16 +0100 (CET) From: Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401152021130.1411@localhost> In-Reply-To: <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401141804450.1273@localhost> <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Michael Sinatra wrote: > On 1/15/14 3:01 AM, Volker Nebel wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> looking for a good a computer I bought a Macmini 6,1 with Intel Core i5 >> last summer, then installed Ubuntu (for amd64) on it and now came back >> to FreeBSD (already running on my laptop). Having installed this, the >> macmini does not boot anymore, unfortunately. It only shows a blinking >> question mark in a folder symbol. >> I searched the web for hints and found half a dozen of pages >> describing how to run both, Mac OS and FreeBSD. One page recommanded to >> issue >> "gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gtpboot -i 1 ada0" after the >> installation and before reboot, but this didn't help. I found the hint >> to use FreeBSD for i386 - same result. (And it did boot Ubuntu for >> amd64.) Someone else recommanded to use MBR partitioning scheme instead >> of GPT, but the Partition Editor of the FreeBSD Installer returns "Error >> Invalid Argument" when I try to Create a partition of type freebsd-boot >> and size 64k or 512K. >> Can anybody help? How can I install FreeBSD 9.2 on a Macmini and boot? > > Surprisingly, the way I have gotten it to work is to use a good, > old-fashioned BSD-style disklabel. I just installed FreeBSD 10-RC1 on a > Mac Mini, but it was the oldest possible Intel version (a 1,1). > > If you install 9.2 the way you would install 8--use an MBR partition > with BSD disklabel on slice 1, you should get it to boot. > > I am not close to the machine right now, and it's powered off, but I can > fire it up and send you the partition/label parameters. > > Again, this is a very old 1,1 (still, it's an EFI system, but it's only > 32-bit), but the same scheme might work on your system as well. > > michael > > > Hi Michael, thank you for the hints! Though I would prefer GTP disk layout because booting with MBR may take longer (Apple first looks for GTP file system, that's what one of the posts said), I wouldn't mind doing so. But as I wrote, I don't get the first slice created. Is type freebsd-boot wrong? Best regards, Volker
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