Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Hi,
I'm trying to install FreeBSD/amd64 on a Core2 based iMac using the
last snapshot I could find (7.0-CURRENT-200706-amd64-disc1.iso). I've
got a blank firewire disk I plan to throw at it.
At boot, sysinstall dies with "Probing disks... BARF 170 <33>",
which causes a "Going nowhere without my init!" panic.
This message points to this code in libdisk:
/* APPLE have ty as a string */
if ((*r) && (strcmp(t, "APPLE") && strcmp(t, "GPT"))) {
printf("BARF %d <%d>\n", __LINE__, *r);
exit (0);
}
This happens with or without the firewire drive plugged in, so I'm
assuming FreeBSD's getting confused by the internal disk. According
to the Apple utilities, the disk looks like this:
% sudo diskutil list /dev/disk0
/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *232.9 GB disk0
1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Tiger 51.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Leopard 51.5 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS home 129.2 GB disk0s4
I'm about to plug the firewire disk into another box and install using
make installworld DESTDIR=/firewire_disk, but this is the sort of
thing that would really, really put off your typical FreeBSD would-be
adopter. Is there anything we can do to fix this in the 7.0
timeframe?
On a somewhat related note, how well does FreeBSD even work on
an iMac? Can we suspend/resume SMP machines yet?
Thanks,
Drew
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