Re: booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin VILLAIN
Hi Kim, I had some trouble bootin FreeBSD on my macbook pro last year. It seems that you have to boot FreeBSD in BIOS mode (UEFI bootloader is not available yet on amd64) and this can only be achieved on the SATA hard drive (not an external one). I don't know how are you trying to boot it but it

Re: how do I build a single app?

2013-06-17 Thread Benjamin VILLAIN
Hi David, The prefered way would be to run a buildworld (make buildworld) which will build all apps on /usr/src/ except the kernel itself. Then if you modify any app, the make will only rebuild your modified binary. Then make installworld will install all the apps at the correct place. Cheers,

Re: Rebooting from loader causes a "fault" in VMware Workstation

2013-04-23 Thread Benjamin VILLAIN
A little more information in that subject, rebooting from the FreeBSD bootloader doesn't work on VirtualBox either (version 4.2). It juste enter an infinite loop without any error message (Grub does reboot). Hope this could help understanding what's going on here :) -- Ben On Tue, Apr 23, 2013