FreeBSD on intel Mac

[Rui Paulo]

Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Andrew Moran writes:
>  > 
>  > Is it the case that I can install and boot freebsd on an intel mac  
>  > (uses EFI, not BIOS) currently (without using Boot Camp), or do I  
>  > have to wait until FreeBSD 7 for this functionality?
> 
> There are various gotachs with Intel Macs:
> 
> When you have an Apple GPT partitioned disk, you may need to install
> from 6.x.  This is because libdisk causes sysinstall to exit (leading to
> "going nowhere without my init") when libdisk crashes with "BARF ...."
> 
> You can't install a non-EFI native OS on an external firewire drive
> and be able to boot it (at least on my iMac).  I tried various
> partition styles (pure MBR, plus MBR + GPT), booting by selecting
> "windows" from the alt-key menu, booting via rEFIt, Ubuntu Fiesty in
> addition to FreeBSD, etc.  That's about 8 or 12 hours of my life I'll
> never get back :(
> 
> Is anybody working on an EFI loader?

Well, I should be starting to think about it. At least during August.

Regards.
-- 
Rui Paulo