From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 15 11:01:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60238A68 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.web.de (mout.web.de [212.227.17.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8F33155A for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nebel.ror.de ([91.47.120.203]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lrazp-1VMnZt0acf-013JlL for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:12 +0100 Received: by nebel.ror.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C6FD5C3E; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nebel.ror.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30C95C3D for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:01:44 +0100 (CET) From: Volker Nebel X-X-Sender: volker@localhost To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pRUXxYCJKr9YPgZljj1waP4nmgM9b971/j8IEzVVF957ZKvxdZr 6PQJgOUtc98DFeaIIOhbIK8Mh3bA4vFaNW4Wl1jdgY3a2PCNA6ZgwTFP9qeWSC1iurZjaFm fUf2Z5yhAA9gGZ1khNABOzRgrf1A7qyjYlvR1SXtNHVERl5ZF/Fgs4g5dGun+E5NbRZuEbs b8pa0JGApH9lL0djxw00w== X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:01:20 -0000 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