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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:56:54 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@shadowsun.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot FreeBSD-current on macbook from USB stick ?
Message-ID:  <66598.1316811414@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:50:30 -0400." <4E7CF115.5000103@shadowsun.net>

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In message <4E7CF115.5000103@shadowsun.net>, Eric McCorkle writes:

>You can boot in legacy BIOS mode, which I do.  You have to create an
>MBR/BSD label installation, as if you have a GPT, the firmware will do
>what I described above.  Now, the mac firmware will wait 30 seconds
>before doing the legacy BIOS boot.  You can get around this by holding
>ALT at power on, and selecting "windows" (*sigh*).
>
>I have the following partition scheme:
>
>MBR---BSD---+---ZFS
>                       |
>                       +---Swap
>
>I do not use refit.

That does not seem to work for me, I have USB stick with a
NanoBSD on it, and it never gets recognized by the macbook,
so there is no 'windows' to select...


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