On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg<lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > I accidentally installed a FreeBSD drive in my MacBook. To my surprise, > it just worked. If you install a boot drive with the "usual" PC disk > partitioning the Macs will boot in what seems to be a fairly complete > BIOS emulation. > > How far Plan9 gets is another story, but my guess is that even if it > sees the disk controllers properly, it's not going to like the NIC(s). > > Don't even try to install it on a Mac. Instead, pull the drive and do > the install on a normal PC, then stick the drive back into the Mac. This > might give you a fighting chance, but it's inevitable you'll be doing > driver work before long. > >
Just installing rEFIt will be much easier than any of that, assuming plan 9 can handle the hardware. But the intel macs use Broadcom NICs and a weird platform chip for the ambient light sensors and accelerometers, which you'd have to write a driver for. Looking for 'applesmc' would give some examples. I can't think of other weird hardware they might use... aside from discrete video cards, they're mostly intel hardware.
