Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:54:47 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? Message-ID: <E10B53C2-651C-4985-B7BA-0EE885B62C3D@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >>> A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I >>> believe) >>> run on a MacBook laptop. >>> >>> Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be >>> interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs >>> mounted >>> mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick >>> several of >>> them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short >>> of rack >>> space at the moment for many new servers). >> >> Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? >> (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) > > Yes, with Bootcamp. However, they cannot boot FreeBSD > automatically (or > at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option > key > down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. Have you tried BAMBIOS (<http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/ legacyboot/> ?) Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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