On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman <vi...@unsane.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 21:29, Kim Shrier wrote: >> Does anyone know if work on booting FreeBSD on modern Apple hardware >> was ever completed? I have looked on the wiki, forums, and email archives >> but I don't see anything definitive. >> >> I would like to have a GPT partitioned disk with a freebsd-boot, >> freebsd-swap, >> and multiple freebsd-ufs partitions on a new Mac mini. Any pointers would be >> appreciated. > I believe efi boot is almost done https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI > > I haven't tested yet although I may sometime soon as it would be nice to > have my macbook dual boot without having to use bootcamp. > > Vince I seem to remember that the EFI code on a mac will only boot from an HFS+ partition if the disk is partitioned using GPT. It will boot from a MBR partitioned disk but only after waiting about 45 seconds before trying the MBR boot. I would like to avoid this delay. Is this (still) true? Kim _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
