Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:11:06 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Andrew Moran <amoran@forsythia.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on intel Mac Message-ID: <18087.41034.817186.693348@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <E0467B70-C0D1-42F7-A93A-24B34BEBF672@forsythia.net> References: <E0467B70-C0D1-42F7-A93A-24B34BEBF672@forsythia.net>
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Andrew Moran writes: > > Is it the case that I can install and boot freebsd on an intel mac > (uses EFI, not BIOS) currently (without using Boot Camp), or do I > have to wait until FreeBSD 7 for this functionality? Boot Camp seems to be a marketing term, I still haven't figured out what various people mean when they use the term. Is it the assistant? The windows driver CD? Here's what I did to run FreeBSD on a mac pro. I started with a default Mac OS X installation from my distribution DVD onto a virgin disk 500MB disk. Then I downloaded bootcamp and ran the boot camp assistant. I let it resize the mac partition (I made it as small as possible) and then gave it a freebsd -stable amd64 CD to install from. After running through the install, you'll end up booted back into the minimal mac os x installation. Then I downloaded and installed refit into the root and ran it's enable shell script. Now, if I hold down the option key as the machine powers up, I'm offered the choice of booting my "real" os x install on a different disk or refit (oddly, it asks me about booting windows, I've never tried it). When I choose refit, it gives me a couple of things to boot from, including either of the mac installs or my freebsd system. I think that if I run refit's enable-always shell script, I can avoid the option key trick and possibly just boot into freebsd by default, but I haven't explored that option. g.
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