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Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Mon Jul 23 15:48:12 UTC 2007
Rui Paulo writes:
> Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > Arne Schwabe writes:
> > > Andrew Gallatin schrieb:
> > > > 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 :( )
> >
> > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch
> > my internal disk. I'm also somewhat upset that the machine
> > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive. If I were
> > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal
> > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac).
>
> Have you tried booting BSD from Firewire with the help of rEFit?
> http://refit.sf.net
Yes, as I said above "rEFIt also fails.." :(
It did mention something about "USB", where this was actually
a firewire drive. So perhaps something is getting confused
regarding firewire and usb.
Drew
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