Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:15:04 +0100 From: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single boot EFI Mac install Message-ID: <CACY%2BHvpCzLE7Fj7J2Wy9CKKaPPYg3MAk0Pp1a88yCETvXgU-VA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20311.38687.874857.590780@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <CACY%2BHvr0R5XAiPat15ChgErAX9VtU9C75ASgvRjxwYk7HNrRcQ@mail.gmail.com> <20311.38687.874857.590780@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:13 PM, George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote= : > Carsten Mattner writes: > =A0> Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD as a single boot system > =A0> on an EFI Mac? > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a single boot system. > > I have Mac Pro that runs Mac OS on on disk (actually a pair in a > software RAID) and FreeBSD from another pair (gmirror RAID). =A0I > suspect that I could pull the MacOS disks from the system and it would > happily run as a FreeBSD only machine. > > I believe that I set up the disks using the mac tools and then did an > install from a DVD, but it's been a while. > > The only particularly trick-ish part is that I had to partition the > FreeBSD disks using MBR style partitions, that's (part of?) what the > Mac firmware uses to decide to turn on it's PC-style BIOS emulation, > which FreeBSD needs before it can get itself going. =A0GPT partitions > will not work. =A0Every once in a while the machine hangs at boot time > but I haven't seen it in a while. > > What happens if you just throw a FreeBSD DVD in the drive? I'm pretty sure I can install FreeBSD. The real question is: Are there EFI bootable FreeBSD images? rEFIt works but cannot be convinced to stop delaying the boot process by ~20 seconds (even after deleting PRAM and bless'ing the partition). That's why I've been looking for native (EFI) boot options.
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