From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 22:05:53 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 1EC5416A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E34043D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so260791nzo for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oC0s8ASwBDMyJci90eXHBpFakGLJq4Vx6p4bBfnGQtA2BEnqiCYGyVKWd3sFcm3FuRKYFFyHu7Uk/poeYPE1iU9EEzS9BnijLF7lg+MBQcMt3Qml4vlsU099hV9BU1wfIVe7aVtUE1dU4jpn/z1tF/zV036m9UxM2wq5IBYVnWY= Received: by 10.37.14.38 with SMTP id r38mr1244328nzi; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.46.13 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:51 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: alan bryan , 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 22:05:53 -0000 On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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. I don't see what booting Darwin has to do with booting FreeBSD. However, since FreeBSD boots on IA64 using the FreeBSD bootloader for IA64, I *hope* it won't be much work to port whatever changes that requires to IA32. Dave