From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 24 17:35:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D08FB56; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x232.google.com (mail-wg0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88F902B3A; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id a1so1109576wgh.5 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:35:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=dBvqp/qqeOV7AASpOWz8uSLvMb7zEBrY/uAPbbhMXMU=; b=q/lCnpbjKc3wbo4CgfDr4x89tBsQeO3oR9dLIugLKEzxmQHy9htnua3KSIBMutjcNt EHrkHYqv8N/NSAa2Z1K1EXa9V4pT6xlASp21diZQyWnC44LDcYfM+1HVbJZXS7pIDgWU TxbHj/t0jgujlPJ9CVh3/nDshcAidNvpgBVib0dVOjMrabQJBNHAAPfvvLWjvRurEgzS xTPT7HHjK6cmN77HOLi6RJ7WB2/9p1/DsJjZUH3rweCl9iT3aCi7ZAjVFbKtEj8HVR5Q Pm5F6k2a4Csft62EhTY6DtaRvyUGXYLFhthrOlVsJEja3seTkUitcR2bLCenYkFoR4Qa Fewg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.171.4 with SMTP id aq4mr1315895wic.52.1385314537970; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.108.195 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.108.195 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:35:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <21136.62025.950336.994239@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:35:37 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mac mini From: iamatt To: Mark Felder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:35:40 -0000 Production servers on Mac minis? What kind of Mickey Mouse place would use those for real servers?! On Nov 24, 2013 9:57 AM, "Mark Felder" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 12:22, George Hartzell wrote: > > Doug Hardie writes: > > > > > > On 20 November 2013, at 10:09, Friedrich Locke < > friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone here run Open/FreeBSD on mac mini ? > > > > > > > > Does the OS fully supports macmini hadrwared ? > > > > > > I have a couple production servers using Minis running FreeBSD 9.1 > > > and 9.2. Check the archives as I posted the procedures I used to > > > install. Some current Minis require a bit of horsing around to get > > > networking to work. I have never used a windowing system on them. > > > I only use a dumb terminal for initial setup and then SSH in after > > > that. > > > > I've been running FreeBSD on a 2008 Intel 8-core Mac Pro (the tower) > > for years, just bumped it up to the current 10-BETA3 (now that Andriy > > solved the ZFS/mmap bug I was fighting and I can trust my flac tagging > > pipeline again). > > > > Works great. I'm running the gnome desktop using the nvidia binary > > distribution to drive a 30" Dell monitor. > > > > Root on Zfs, two disk mirror. Swapping directly onto partitions, no > > mirror or ZFS involved. > > > > I'm still depending on the BIOS emulation to boot and it only gets > > triggered if you use MBR formatted disks, not GPT. That confused the > > daylights out of me for a bit. I'm not sure if the EFI (?) boot stuff > > works or not. > > > > One time out of 4 it hangs early in the kernel starting up. Never > > cared enough to get help tracking it down. > > > > I know someone with the same model of Mac Pro but he's been in the > process of moving. I'll see if I can convince him to install FreeBSD on > a drive and reproduce that hang. > > When was the last time you ran OSX on it? There might be a > BIOS/firmware/EFI update waiting. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >