Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:35:37 -0600 From: iamatt <iamatt@gmail.com> To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mac mini Message-ID: <CAEeRwNUcuev2rvUUztVpts7P3%2BaSQqKT_6ajiqc_jBfhwNzq6Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <CANMDHqd1b8eCR0a9L53i0LTp9v7L9WZc666buFhD8UdukxD%2BPQ@mail.gmail.com> <BE9CCAFD-C3EF-4340-A4B6-D706E6A897C3@lafn.org> <21136.62025.950336.994239@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Production servers on Mac minis? What kind of Mickey Mouse place would use those for real servers?! On Nov 24, 2013 9:57 AM, "Mark Felder" <feld@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 12:22, George Hartzell wrote: > > Doug Hardie writes: > > > > > > On 20 November 2013, at 10:09, Friedrich Locke < > friedrich.locke@gmail.com> 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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