From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 19:31:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4783816A418 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D86813C474 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:31:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD5833C62; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "satchel.alerce.com", Issuer "alerce.com" (verified OK)) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CC933C5D; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id DCA3F112550; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18087.41034.817186.693348@almost.alerce.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:11:06 -0700 To: Andrew Moran In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:10:26 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on intel Mac X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:31:40 -0000 Andrew Moran writes: > > Is it the case that I can install and boot freebsd on an intel mac > (uses EFI, not BIOS) currently (without using Boot Camp), or do I > have to wait until FreeBSD 7 for this functionality? Boot Camp seems to be a marketing term, I still haven't figured out what various people mean when they use the term. Is it the assistant? The windows driver CD? Here's what I did to run FreeBSD on a mac pro. I started with a default Mac OS X installation from my distribution DVD onto a virgin disk 500MB disk. Then I downloaded bootcamp and ran the boot camp assistant. I let it resize the mac partition (I made it as small as possible) and then gave it a freebsd -stable amd64 CD to install from. After running through the install, you'll end up booted back into the minimal mac os x installation. Then I downloaded and installed refit into the root and ran it's enable shell script. Now, if I hold down the option key as the machine powers up, I'm offered the choice of booting my "real" os x install on a different disk or refit (oddly, it asks me about booting windows, I've never tried it). When I choose refit, it gives me a couple of things to boot from, including either of the mac installs or my freebsd system. I think that if I run refit's enable-always shell script, I can avoid the option key trick and possibly just boot into freebsd by default, but I haven't explored that option. g.