On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tasmanian Devil wrote:
> > Is there anyone working on porting OpenBSD to Intel Apple hardware? Such as
> > the Macbook?
>
> The i386 GENERIC.MP kernel runs fine on Intel Macs. You just need to
> enable ACPI with "config -ef bsd.mp" (or on the boot prompt).
This is not true. At least it has been reported that the MacBook Pro
with Core Due 2 processor does not run.
>
> > I can't imagine it would be particularly hard; there'd need to be a way of
> > loading and running a kernel via EFI, and then tweaking the hardware
> > detection.
>
> EFI emulates a normal PC BIOS if there's no Mac OS X on the harddisk.
> OpenBSD boots fine (though it doesn't feel like booting if no monitor
> is attached, but you can emulate one easily with a dongle, and
> automatic restart on power failure needs a little software trick).
BTW, you can install OpenBSD on a BootCamp partition. After creating
the Bootcamp partition using the wizard, boot using the OpenBSD CD,
and in the fdisk step in the installer, set the partition type to A6,
make it active and update the MBR.
-Otto
