FreeBSD on Intel Macs?
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Thu Jan 12 04:49:12 PST 2006
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:54:56PM -0700, Scott Long wrote..
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >David Leimbach wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>On 1/11/06, *Julian Elischer* <julian at elischer.org
> >><mailto:julian at elischer.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> alan bryan wrote:
> >>
> >> >I read that the new Intel (x86) Macs use EFI rather
> >> >than the traditional PC Bios to boot up. I'm
> >> >interested in using one of these to multiboot OS X and
> >> >FreeBSD and am wondering if it is yet known to work or
> >> >not. Do any changes need to be made to FreeBSD or
> >> >should it work out of the box? Thanks for any insight
> >> >and I know that it may be impossible to fully answer
> >> >until people get their hands on the hardware but I
> >> >just wanted to start thinking about the possibilities.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> well if they can boot Darwin I'm sure they can be hacked to boot
> >> FreeBSD.
> >> It would probabty require a different bootloader binary.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I don't see what booting Darwin has to do with booting FreeBSD.
> >
> >
> >
> >If they were bastards they could refuse to load anything that wasn't in
> >some format or didn't
> >decrypt with some public key. I doubt they wouod do that but since they
> >control the
> >horizontal and the vertical they COULD do it.
> >
> >It is possible that the boot loader sequence may require a stage that is
> >in some format
> >supported by the apple firmware, depending on how wired down they have
> >made it.
> >
>
> Geez, please take off the tinfoil hat. This has been an FAQ since about
> 3 seconds after the word 'Intel' escaped Jobs' lips in June. Apple has
> quite clearly stated that they will not do anything to lock down the
> hardware from other OS's, just that they won't go out of their way to
> support anything other than OSX.
>
> So, repeat after me: "APPLE IS NOT KILLING KITTENS AND CALLING YOUR
Not too surprising the abundance of cats over at jkh's residence ;)
> MOTHER DIRTY NAMES". A gold star goes to the first person who boots
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Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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