From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 15:48:12 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 AD23B16A41A for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C09913C469 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6NFmAKF003441 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:48:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id l6NFlgRN092860; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:47:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18084.52660.936317.324746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:47:41 -0400 (EDT) To: Rui Paulo 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arne Schwabe 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 15:48:12 -0000 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