Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:51 -0800 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org>
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On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> 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
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