Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:48:59 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: alan bryan <alanbryan1234@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs? Message-ID: <20060112124859.GA44686@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <43C5B6F0.1050004@samsco.org> References: <20060111212605.79848.qmail@web34104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43C57A7A.3080802@elischer.org> <3e1162e60601111405x59e7e70dyf57c74b01e888e8a@mail.gmail.com> <43C5B4B2.9000707@elischer.org> <43C5B6F0.1050004@samsco.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:54:56PM -0700, Scott Long wrote.. > Julian Elischer wrote: > >David Leimbach wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>On 1/11/06, *Julian Elischer* <julian@elischer.org > >><mailto: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. > > > > > > > >If they were bastards they could refuse to load anything that wasn't in > >some format or didn't > >decrypt with some public key. I doubt they wouod do that but since they > >control the > >horizontal and the vertical they COULD do it. > > > >It is possible that the boot loader sequence may require a stage that is > >in some format > >supported by the apple firmware, depending on how wired down they have > >made it. > > > > Geez, please take off the tinfoil hat. This has been an FAQ since about > 3 seconds after the word 'Intel' escaped Jobs' lips in June. Apple has > quite clearly stated that they will not do anything to lock down the > hardware from other OS's, just that they won't go out of their way to > support anything other than OSX. > > So, repeat after me: "APPLE IS NOT KILLING KITTENS AND CALLING YOUR Not too surprising the abundance of cats over at jkh's residence ;) > MOTHER DIRTY NAMES". A gold star goes to the first person who boots -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060112124859.GA44686>