From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 17 18:53:27 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D86DC167F5 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holindho@saunalahti.fi) Received: from vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi (vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi [62.142.117.199]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi", Issuer "vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2D55FD9 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holindho@saunalahti.fi) Received: from vams (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F76200D7 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:45:20 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.116]) by vs18.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D59200D7 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:45:20 +0300 (EEST) Received: from macpro.local (62-78-248-13.bb.dnainternet.fi [62.78.248.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 868AE40070 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:45:19 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: Install on macpro1,1 (efi32) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5801F0B2.1070201@saunalahti.fi> From: Heikki Lindholm Message-ID: <58051C34.2080107@saunalahti.fi> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:45:08 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5801F0B2.1070201@saunalahti.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:53:27 -0000 15.10.2016, 12.02, Heikki Lindholm kirjoitti: > Hello list, > > I'm quite unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but thought I'd give it a try, mainly > to get ZFS, and maybe to get rid of Linux. The machine I'm trying to > install on is a first generation Apple Mac Pro (macpro1,1) with 64-bit > Xeons, but 32-bit EFI implementation. I tried to boot some of the > installation media with varying success. > > The following would not boot at all: > FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-disc1.iso > FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso > > The following did boot: > FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso > > I'm guessing that the one that boots, does it in the BIOS emulation mode > provided by Apple's firmware. Of course, I'd like to skip any BIOS > emulation and have it utilise EFI, and I'd also like to start with the > latest 11.0 RELEASE version. > > So, my questions are: Does FreeBSD support a mixed boot-up process of a > 32-bit EFI and a 64-bit kernel (Linux does, or at least did). Once the > kernel is booted up, does it matter in FreeBSD whether it got booted > using BIOS emulation or EFI (ie. slower firmware call access, changes in > perceived HD geometry or device tree, etc..)? Is there a way to boot the > 11 RELEASE installation media on this machine? > > Ultimately I'd like to have a dual boot system of OS X and FreeBSD with > only Apple's firmware provided OS / boot device chooser (pressing Alt at > startup). IF reFind or something like that is the only way on this > machine then so be it, though. Answering myself here, for the record. The svn contains beginnings of 32-bit i386 EFI boot / loader support, but I couldn't tell whether the kernel will support a mixed mode boot from a 32-bit EFI booter to 64-bit kernel.