From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 15 19:26:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8907EBC4 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:26:20 +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 F41091D7B for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nebel.ror.de ([91.47.111.208]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MJpnI-1W2QAw0Aiq-001DoK for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:26:18 +0100 Received: by nebel.ror.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 105C25C40; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:26:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nebel.ror.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D34C5C3E for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:26:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:26:16 +0100 (CET) From: Volker Nebel X-X-Sender: volker@localhost To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh? In-Reply-To: <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: References: <52D6D32A.9010506@rancid.berkeley.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:jNqzfSpkyi8Bvj2ZjnDlQoHnpmPxGNW2u8u/nRBMgJS75fviuDs fhd4nmW6/hX7R5r/qxAucjxIWS/hrRkaSGmhZzIdH/B35u74AGPZY36KZV8mFVocNSqL8TP YcrTZbD1DYpqgujXvM22c4tCK3b6H2A56KAXDchvfdk6ESoqnV6s6NDYWohDHOBPYsQJBbf FcvtO7dHwhvYtc3ozl08Q== 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 19:26:20 -0000 On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Michael Sinatra wrote: > On 1/15/14 3:01 AM, Volker Nebel wrote: >> 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? > > Surprisingly, the way I have gotten it to work is to use a good, > old-fashioned BSD-style disklabel. I just installed FreeBSD 10-RC1 on a > Mac Mini, but it was the oldest possible Intel version (a 1,1). > > If you install 9.2 the way you would install 8--use an MBR partition > with BSD disklabel on slice 1, you should get it to boot. > > I am not close to the machine right now, and it's powered off, but I can > fire it up and send you the partition/label parameters. > > Again, this is a very old 1,1 (still, it's an EFI system, but it's only > 32-bit), but the same scheme might work on your system as well. > > michael > > > Hi Michael, thank you for the hints! Though I would prefer GTP disk layout because booting with MBR may take longer (Apple first looks for GTP file system, that's what one of the posts said), I wouldn't mind doing so. But as I wrote, I don't get the first slice created. Is type freebsd-boot wrong? Best regards, Volker