On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:13 PM, George Hartzell <[email protected]> wrote: > Carsten Mattner writes: > > Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD as a single boot system > > on an EFI Mac? > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a single boot system. > > I have Mac Pro that runs Mac OS on on disk (actually a pair in a > software RAID) and FreeBSD from another pair (gmirror RAID). I > suspect that I could pull the MacOS disks from the system and it would > happily run as a FreeBSD only machine. > > I believe that I set up the disks using the mac tools and then did an > install from a DVD, but it's been a while. > > The only particularly trick-ish part is that I had to partition the > FreeBSD disks using MBR style partitions, that's (part of?) what the > Mac firmware uses to decide to turn on it's PC-style BIOS emulation, > which FreeBSD needs before it can get itself going. GPT partitions > will not work. Every once in a while the machine hangs at boot time > but I haven't seen it in a while. > > What happens if you just throw a FreeBSD DVD in the drive?
I'm pretty sure I can install FreeBSD. The real question is: Are there EFI bootable FreeBSD images? rEFIt works but cannot be convinced to stop delaying the boot process by ~20 seconds (even after deleting PRAM and bless'ing the partition). That's why I've been looking for native (EFI) boot options. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
