From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 16:50:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99A91065679 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:50:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0031.b.hostedemail.com [64.98.42.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871AE8FC0C for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (b-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay03.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CB0955F0AB2 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:50:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Panda: scanned! X-Session-Marker: 6561676C6574726565406875676865732E6E6574 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 4916 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dpc6682103093.direcpc.com [66.82.103.93]) (Authenticated sender: eagletree@hughes.net) by omf10.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 16:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <85E4AD90-E5D0-47C1-AD7E-6F12F7C5B5E7@hughes.net> From: Chris To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 09:50:20 -0700 References: <9E15A9F3-F67E-4ECC-B1EC-99F65764F831@hughes.net> <63A8A75A-D0F6-4FC6-A1D6-784792B5BBB7@hughes.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:50:39 -0000 On Jun 6, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Chris wrote: > > EFI is the issue. I was hoping there is new information such as > an installation with EFI configuration files to permit the boot. > There are instructions available on creating such an installation > for linux variants. They don't seem to apply to FreeBSD or I haven't > the knowledge to create such an installation. > > > Well if you want to run BSD on it, I suggest NetBSD. They use rEFIt > for it. > http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_install_NetBSD_on_an_Apple_Macbook_w/core2duo > > I would say there is even some reasonable hope it that it would work > well. I'm no expert thought so you could try asking over there. > Adam and Chris, Thank you, you both are on the solution if it works. rEFIt at refit.sourceforge.net was one of the solutions that looked promising, only with FreeBSD. I will try this. Anyone interested, feel free to contact me off-list on progress or especially if interested in cooperative discovery on whether this will work or not. Thanks again for the responses. > -- > Adam Vande More