Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:55:39 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <46A4B35B.8050605@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A4BC5E.6080006@uni-paderborn.de> <18084.48565.688142.945366@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Arne Schwabe writes: > > 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 :( ) > > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch > my internal disk. I'm also somewhat upset that the machine > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive. If I were > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac). Have you tried booting BSD from Firewire with the help of rEFit? http://refit.sf.net -- Rui Paulo
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