Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:31:30 +0100 From: Crest <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MacPro 2009 again Message-ID: <5322CC72.4050600@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <278B7E0F-83DE-40AD-B57B-CB52A442C1C8@orange.fr> References: <278B7E0F-83DE-40AD-B57B-CB52A442C1C8@orange.fr>
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On 12.03.2014 09:25, Nicolas Kozic wrote: > Hello all, I come back on FreeBSD. I tried for a couple of months > macports, fink on macosx on Mavericks version but it is not the > same. On Mavericks we can have X via XQuartz but I miss some > softwares and X from FreeBSD is different. So my actual solution > is: Use one system with my needs and boot on when it's useful. I > have many request about FreeBSD on MacPro (to access to my > macintosh hard drive inside FreeBSD for instance). But first I want > to boot on my FreeBSD HD. I installed on a hard drive who had > previously the FileVault turned on. I want to know if it is the > cause of my problem. Because I previously wrote "gpart bootcode -b > /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i bootpartition adax" and fix "bless > -device /dev/disk setboot -legacy]". and my system refuses to boot. > The last command ask me a problem. > > Do I need to bless the whole disk or the boot partition of disk ? > Nicolas Kozic I avoided the whole problem like this on FreeBSD 10.0/amd64: 1. Format the disk with MBR (1 slice) 2. Format the slice as BSD label (3 partitions) 3. Put a UFS /boot, swap and zpool on partitions. 4. Install FreeBSD on the zpool 5. Copy /boot to the UFS and symlink it. 6. Put /boot/mbr on the disk 7. Put /boot/boot on the slice 8. Activate the first slice of the MBR 9. Watch the MacPro EFI boot in BIOS mode. Just for fun I installed X.org and tested the System a little. 2D Performance was nice but the combination of an old lowend Radeon with a 2560px x 1600px display and the free X.org drivers resulted in abysmal 3D performance at the native resolution. I later extended this setup to a 4 way GEOM mirror /boot and a ZFS pool of two mirrored VDEVs. The old SATA1 controller will cost you some performance.
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