booting FreeBSD on Apple Mac mini with GPT disk partition

[Kim Shrier]

On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman <vince at unsane.co.uk> wrote:

> On 03/09/2013 21:29, Kim Shrier wrote:
>> Does anyone know if work on booting FreeBSD on modern Apple hardware
>> was ever completed?  I have looked on the wiki, forums, and email archives
>> but I don't see anything definitive.
>> 
>> I would like to have a GPT partitioned disk with a freebsd-boot, freebsd-swap,
>> and multiple freebsd-ufs partitions on a new Mac mini.  Any pointers would be
>> appreciated.
> I believe efi boot is almost done https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI
> 
> I haven't tested yet although I may sometime soon as it would be nice to
> have my macbook dual boot without having to use bootcamp.
> 
> Vince

I seem to remember that the EFI code on a mac will only boot from an HFS+
partition if the disk is partitioned using GPT.  It will boot from a MBR partitioned
disk but only after waiting about 45 seconds before trying the MBR boot.  I
would like to avoid this delay.

Is this (still) true?

Kim