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

2013-09-04 Thread Kim Shrier
On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman 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

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

2013-09-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
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, free

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

booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

2013-09-03 Thread Kim Shrier
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