From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 21:36:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D1116A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:36:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390FA43D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:36:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.23.146]) ([10.251.23.146]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 11 Jan 2006 13:36:58 -0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true Message-ID: <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:36:58 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alan bryan References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:36:59 -0000 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 > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >