Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:00:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Mm Bsd <mmbsd1982@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with EFI / partitioning with FreeBSD ONLY mac mini ... from USB drive ... Message-ID: <1319954435.22260.YahooMailClassic@web124703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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I booted the 8.2-RELEASE CD on my Intel mac mini, which has a thumb drive plugged into USB. I promptly entered FIXIT and used dd to zero out the ENTIRE internal hard drive. I may use it, I may not, but for now I want to reduce variables and I don't want remnants of OSX on that disk tripping me up. I exited FIXIT and proceeded with a plain old install of FreeBSD 8.2 onto the thumb drive, which was seen as da0. Upon rebooting, I see a folder icon with a question mark inside of it, blinking on the screen. The mac mini cannot see an OS to boot. I have tried to solve this by: - same as above, but "plain old" loader instead of FreeBSD boot manager. Both failed - During install, in FDISK, using the "T" option to change the type to 238 Still failing. Any idea what the missing part of this recipe is ? NOTE: I see something of an answer here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-September/027585.html But I do not know how to "put a dummy MBR there even if using GPT layout" ... so if that is the answer, some additional details, please :) Just trying to boot FreeBSD, and only FreeBSD, off of the thumb drive plugged into a mac mini with no other disks. Any help appreciated.
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