From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 14:52:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9252916A41F for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from mail.blinkt.de (mail.blinkt.de [88.198.169.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A03113C46E for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dslb-084-062-212-221.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.62.212.221] helo=styx.local) by mail.blinkt.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ICyzE-0008dl-17; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:34:12 +0200 Message-ID: <46A4BC5E.6080006@uni-paderborn.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:34:06 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rui Paulo , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:52:01 -0000 Andrew Gallatin schrieb: > Rui Paulo writes: > > > 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. > > Argh. Screwed at every turn. As it turns out, I can't even make my > machine boot a "legacy" OS from a firewire disk. Both FreeBSD and > Ubuntu lead to a "no bootable device" error when booting directly, and > rEFIt also fails (with some interesting comments regarding how apple's > firmware does not deal well with booting a legacy OS from firwewire). > I ran out of time before I could shuffle MacOSX to the external drive > to free up the internal one for FreeBSD. > > Oh well, back to MacOSX and dealing with X crashing every few weeks. > > You could resize your hfs+ parition (diskutil) and put a small boot parition on your internal harddisk. Works fine on my Macbook Pro (but still not usable, missing GPU support :( ) Arne