From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 24 15:56:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DCFF3E6 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5365F2709 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50C820CCE for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:56:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:56:45 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=Ck564w3lh+4ilvI3HnEKZFw/YpA=; b=HwZh/ 61LhbGe/UFUyxOwTRF0bA6fXItcV+hC0lC4zjhhgRkhsoQDGw0wsPbUsmGmpo9iN qXt9/QJDlGxKAf8G00a5ABmguroEJFQW0seXSagtPDX9FG1HGSy/fAU1Ccc6xxw0 JWHYG5mxcrtMHxS+WaYDEjncsZ/4hqF+B1Fxh8= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id B48F111E73A; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:56:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 2O/ghEDIxxEC2B8jRUE0+Y9biP1XEumSIMcx2AxNBxgT 1385308605 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-3f1150ec Subject: Re: mac mini Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:56:45 -0600 In-Reply-To: <21136.62025.950336.994239@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <21136.62025.950336.994239@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:56:47 -0000 On Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 12:22, George Hartzell wrote: > Doug Hardie writes: > > > > On 20 November 2013, at 10:09, Friedrich Locke wrote: > > > > > Does anyone here run Open/FreeBSD on mac mini ? > > > > > > Does the OS fully supports macmini hadrwared ? > > > > I have a couple production servers using Minis running FreeBSD 9.1 > > and 9.2. Check the archives as I posted the procedures I used to > > install. Some current Minis require a bit of horsing around to get > > networking to work. I have never used a windowing system on them. > > I only use a dumb terminal for initial setup and then SSH in after > > that. > > I've been running FreeBSD on a 2008 Intel 8-core Mac Pro (the tower) > for years, just bumped it up to the current 10-BETA3 (now that Andriy > solved the ZFS/mmap bug I was fighting and I can trust my flac tagging > pipeline again). > > Works great. I'm running the gnome desktop using the nvidia binary > distribution to drive a 30" Dell monitor. > > Root on Zfs, two disk mirror. Swapping directly onto partitions, no > mirror or ZFS involved. > > I'm still depending on the BIOS emulation to boot and it only gets > triggered if you use MBR formatted disks, not GPT. That confused the > daylights out of me for a bit. I'm not sure if the EFI (?) boot stuff > works or not. > > One time out of 4 it hangs early in the kernel starting up. Never > cared enough to get help tracking it down. > I know someone with the same model of Mac Pro but he's been in the process of moving. I'll see if I can convince him to install FreeBSD on a drive and reproduce that hang. When was the last time you ran OSX on it? There might be a BIOS/firmware/EFI update waiting.