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[Arne Schwabe]

Andrew Gallatin schrieb:
> Rui Paulo writes:
>  > > I'm about to plug the firewire disk into another box and install using
>  > > make installworld DESTDIR=/firewire_disk, but this is the sort of
>  > > thing that would really, really put off your typical FreeBSD would-be
>  > > adopter.  Is there anything we can do to fix this in the 7.0
>  > > timeframe?
>  > 
>  > As a workaround try using a 6.2 CD.
>
>
>  > > On a somewhat related note, how well does FreeBSD even work on
>  > > an iMac?  Can we suspend/resume SMP machines yet?
>  > 
>  > No.
>
> Argh.  Screwed at every turn.  As it turns out, I can't even make my
> machine boot a "legacy" OS from a firewire disk.  Both FreeBSD and
> Ubuntu lead to a "no bootable device" error when booting directly, and
> rEFIt also fails (with some interesting comments regarding how apple's
> firmware does not deal well with booting a legacy OS from firwewire).
> I ran out of time before I could shuffle MacOSX to the external drive
> to free up the internal one for FreeBSD.
>
> Oh well, back to MacOSX and dealing with X crashing every few weeks.
>
>   
You could resize your hfs+ parition (diskutil) and put a small boot
parition on your internal harddisk. Works fine on my Macbook Pro (but
still not usable, missing GPU support :( )

Arne