On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 14:18:23 -0800
Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
On 7 March 2013, at 11:57, Kevin Oberman
<rkober...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Doug Hardie
<bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
On 7 March 2013, at 06:42, Richard Kuhns
<r...@wintek.com> wrote:
> On 03/07/13 01:59, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I have a new Mac Mini and have encountered the same
problem reported last year by Richard Kuhns. YongHyeon
PYUN provided some patches to the kernel that resolved
the problem. However, without an internet connection its
a bit tricky to get them into the system. Here is the
approach I believe will work, but wanted to check first
before I really mess things up.
>>
>> 1. Downloaded from current today via
svnweb.freebsd.org:
>> sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h
>> sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c
>> sys/dev/mii/brgphy.c
>>
>> I believe the patches are incorporated in today's
versions. The comments indicate such. Thus I don't need
to apply the original supplied patch.
>>
>> 2. Put those on a flash drive.
>>
>> 3. Install 9.1 release from flash drive onto the
Mini disk. Have to include the system source.
>>
>> 4. Copy the files from 1 above from flash over the
files on the disk.
>>
>> 5. Rebuild the kernel and install it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Doug
>
> That's worked for me 3 times now.
Thanks. Well, I got 9.1 Release installed, but it won't
boot from the internal disk. It doesn't see the disk as
bootable. I installed using the entire disk for FreeBSD.
I used the i386 release. Perhaps I need to switch to
the amd64 release?
I would generally recommend using the amd64 release, but
it may not get your system to boot.
How is your disk partitioned? GPT? Some BIOSes are
broken and assume that a GPT formatted disk is UEFI and
will not recognize them if they lack the UEFI boot
partition. UEFI boot is a current project that seems
likely to reach head in the fairly near future, but it's
not possible now.
No idea what the default partitioning is for BSDInstall.
However the Mini is only EFI or UFEI with some fallbacks
although the comments I find in the web indicate that
different models have different fallbacks.
One comment indicates that an older unit will boot if
its MBR partitioning. I don't know if the new installer
supports that or not.
You may be able to tweak your BIOS to get it to work or
you may have to install using the traditional
partitioning system. The installer defaults to GPT, but
can create either.
I have such a system (ThinkPad T520) and I have two
disks... one that came with the system and containing
Windows, and my GPT formatted FreeBSD disk. I wrote a
FreeBSD BootEasy boot into the MBR of the Windows disk
and it CAN boot the GPT disk just fine. Not ideal for
most, but it works well for me
Based on a comment I say, waiting till the empty folder
icon appears and then plugging in the install memstick
causes the mini to boot from disk. That just downright
weird, but it works. I could live with that, but this is
an unattended server and would experience some down time
if I am not there when there is a power failure.
I just found some "instructions" for using MBR with
bsdinstall, but given there is an effort to create a UEFI
boot which I suspect would expect to find the GPT boot
partition, perhaps I should just go with the memstick
approach?
Hello,
If you still have a drive with OS X on it, you may have
some luck with OS X's bless command:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/bless.8.html
I got a late 2012 mac mini to boot FreeBSD 9.1 (AMD64)
from a hard drive using 'bless' (unfortunately I don't
remember the exact command line parameters I used). If
you're looking to dual boot, the only luck I had (without
resorting to using third party software like rEFIt) was to
put the OS's on different drives and install FreeBSD using
MBR on the second drive.
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