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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:30:49 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mac mini (intel)?
Message-ID:  <1152793849.84438.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <E10B53C2-651C-4985-B7BA-0EE885B62C3D@shire.net>
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On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 00:54 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> >>> A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I =20
> >>> believe)
> >>> run on a MacBook laptop.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)?  I might be
> >>> interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs =20
> >>> mounted
> >>> mail stores.  I like their small size and ability to stick =20
> >>> several of
> >>> them in my racks without really taking much room.  (We are short =20
> >>> of rack
> >>> space at the moment for many new servers).
> >>
> >> Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet?
> >> (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.)
> >
> > Yes, with Bootcamp.  However, they cannot boot FreeBSD =20
> > automatically (or
> > at least I haven't found a way to do it).  You must hold the Option =20
> > key
> > down at boot-time to select the alternate OS.
>=20
> Have you tried BAMBIOS (<http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/=20
> legacyboot/> ?)

This sounds a bit like what Bootcamp already provides.  However, it
doesn't seem to be available currently to try.

Joe

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