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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:36:58 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs?
Message-ID:  <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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alan bryan wrote:

>I read that the new Intel (x86) Macs use EFI rather
>than the traditional PC Bios to boot up.  I'm
>interested in using one of these to multiboot OS X and
>FreeBSD and am wondering if it is yet known to work or
>not.  Do any changes need to be made to FreeBSD or
>should it work out of the box? Thanks for any insight
>and I know that it may be impossible to fully answer
>until people get their hands on the hardware but I
>just wanted to start thinking about the possibilities.
>  
>
well if they can boot Darwin I'm sure they can be hacked to boot FreeBSD.
It would probabty require a different bootloader binary.


>--Alan
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