Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <18084.52660.936317.324746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A4B35B.8050605@fnop.net> 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> <46A4B35B.8050605@fnop.net>
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Rui Paulo writes: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Arne Schwabe writes: > > > Andrew Gallatin schrieb: > > > > 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 Yes, as I said above "rEFIt also fails.." :( It did mention something about "USB", where this was actually a firewire drive. So perhaps something is getting confused regarding firewire and usb. Drew
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