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On 03/09/2013 21:29, Kim Shrier wrote:
> Does anyone know if work on booting FreeBSD on modern Apple hardware
> was ever completed?  I have looked on the wiki, forums, and email archives
> but I don't see anything definitive.
>
> I would like to have a GPT partitioned disk with a freebsd-boot, freebsd-swap,
> and multiple freebsd-ufs partitions on a new Mac mini.  Any pointers would be
> appreciated.
I believe efi boot is almost done https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI

I haven't tested yet although I may sometime soon as it would be nice to
have my macbook dual boot without having to use bootcamp.

Vince
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
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> Shrier and Deihl, Westryn Internet Services
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