Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:02:42 +0300 From: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@saunalahti.fi> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install on macpro1,1 (efi32) Message-ID: <5801F0B2.1070201@saunalahti.fi>
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Hello list, I'm quite unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but thought I'd give it a try, mainly to get ZFS, and maybe to get rid of Linux. The machine I'm trying to install on is a first generation Apple Mac Pro (macpro1,1) with 64-bit Xeons, but 32-bit EFI implementation. I tried to boot some of the installation media with varying success. The following would not boot at all: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-disc1.iso FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso The following did boot: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso I'm guessing that the one that boots, does it in the BIOS emulation mode provided by Apple's firmware. Of course, I'd like to skip any BIOS emulation and have it utilise EFI, and I'd also like to start with the latest 11.0 RELEASE version. So, my questions are: Does FreeBSD support a mixed boot-up process of a 32-bit EFI and a 64-bit kernel (Linux does, or at least did). Once the kernel is booted up, does it matter in FreeBSD whether it got booted using BIOS emulation or EFI (ie. slower firmware call access, changes in perceived HD geometry or device tree, etc..)? Is there a way to boot the 11 RELEASE installation media on this machine? Ultimately I'd like to have a dual boot system of OS X and FreeBSD with only Apple's firmware provided OS / boot device chooser (pressing Alt at startup). IF reFind or something like that is the only way on this machine then so be it, though. Regards, Heikki Lindholm
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