From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 18:58:49 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 6B0F916A419 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C1D13C45A for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6QIwkkF014195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:58:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id l6QIwIxL014253; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:58:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18088.61153.369771.398961@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:58:18 -0400 (EDT) To: Andrew Moran In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:49 -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? There are various gotachs with Intel Macs: When you have an Apple GPT partitioned disk, you may need to install from 6.x. This is because libdisk causes sysinstall to exit (leading to "going nowhere without my init") when libdisk crashes with "BARF ...." You can't install a non-EFI native OS on an external firewire drive and be able to boot it (at least on my iMac). I tried various partition styles (pure MBR, plus MBR + GPT), booting by selecting "windows" from the alt-key menu, booting via rEFIt, Ubuntu Fiesty in addition to FreeBSD, etc. That's about 8 or 12 hours of my life I'll never get back :( Is anybody working on an EFI loader? Drew