mac mini (intel)?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>>> A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I  
>>> believe)
>>> run on a MacBook laptop.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)?  I might be
>>> interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs  
>>> mounted
>>> mail stores.  I like their small size and ability to stick  
>>> several of
>>> them in my racks without really taking much room.  (We are short  
>>> of rack
>>> space at the moment for many new servers).
>>
>> Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet?
>> (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.)
>
> Yes, with Bootcamp.  However, they cannot boot FreeBSD  
> automatically (or
> at least I haven't found a way to do it).  You must hold the Option  
> key
> down at boot-time to select the alternate OS.

Have you tried BAMBIOS (<http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/ 
legacyboot/> ?)

Chad

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