Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:44 +0100 (CET) From: Volker Nebel <vnebel@web.de> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401141804450.1273@localhost>
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Dear all, looking for a good a computer I bought a Macmini 6,1 with Intel Core i5 last summer, then installed Ubuntu (for amd64) on it and now came back to FreeBSD (already running on my laptop). Having installed this, the macmini does not boot anymore, unfortunately. It only shows a blinking question mark in a folder symbol. I searched the web for hints and found half a dozen of pages describing how to run both, Mac OS and FreeBSD. One page recommanded to issue "gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gtpboot -i 1 ada0" after the installation and before reboot, but this didn't help. I found the hint to use FreeBSD for i386 - same result. (And it did boot Ubuntu for amd64.) Someone else recommanded to use MBR partitioning scheme instead of GPT, but the Partition Editor of the FreeBSD Installer returns "Error Invalid Argument" when I try to Create a partition of type freebsd-boot and size 64k or 512K. Can anybody help? How can I install FreeBSD 9.2 on a Macmini and boot? Best regards, Volker
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