Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:44:43 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> [didn't seem to go through first time; apologies if you
> see this twice]
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD/amd64 on a Core2 based iMac using the
> last snapshot I could find (7.0-CURRENT-200706-amd64-disc1.iso). I've
> got a blank firewire disk I plan to throw at it.
>
> At boot, sysinstall dies with "Probing disks... BARF 170 <33>",
> which causes a "Going nowhere without my init!" panic.
> This message points to this code in libdisk:
>
> /* APPLE have ty as a string */
> if ((*r) && (strcmp(t, "APPLE") && strcmp(t, "GPT"))) {
> printf("BARF %d <%d>\n", __LINE__, *r);
> exit (0);
> }
>
> This happens with or without the firewire drive plugged in, so I'm
> assuming FreeBSD's getting confused by the internal disk. According
> to the Apple utilities, the disk looks like this:
>
> % sudo diskutil list /dev/disk0
> /dev/disk0
> #: type name size identifier
> 0: GUID_partition_scheme *232.9 GB disk0
> 1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1
> 2: Apple_HFS Tiger 51.5 GB disk0s2
> 3: Apple_HFS Leopard 51.5 GB disk0s3
> 4: Apple_HFS home 129.2 GB disk0s4
>
>
> I'm about to plug the firewire disk into another box and install using
> make installworld DESTDIR=/firewire_disk, but this is the sort of
> thing that would really, really put off your typical FreeBSD would-be
> adopter. Is there anything we can do to fix this in the 7.0
> timeframe?
As a workaround try using a 6.2 CD.
> On a somewhat related note, how well does FreeBSD even work on
> an iMac? Can we suspend/resume SMP machines yet?
No.
--
Rui Paulo
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