Intel Mac experiences

[James Earl]

I'm actually just looking for general experiences that FreeBSD
developers have had with Intel based Macs.  I tried to make the
subject clear... but I'm sometimes not too great at being clear in
conversation.  :)

On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone <wingot at eftel.com> wrote:
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> No, I don't. I have never had a need, or even a use, for one.
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> However, my comment on being more descriptive still stands regardless of
> whether I did or didn't have an Intel Mac. And it would allow whoever
> does actually help you to have something to work with.
>
> At first glance, sounds like a hardware driver issue, but by knowing
> nothing about you or your computer then that you have an intel mac that
> is hanging after boot, then no real help can be offered.
>
> James Earl wrote:
> > Do you have an Intel Mac?
> >
> > On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone <wingot at eftel.com> wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?
> >
> > If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
> > and any problems you are having should involve more detail so that we
> > can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then "gets just
> > past the boot menu and then stops." For example, does it freeze with
> > only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
> > of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)
> >
> > Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)
> >
> > James Earl wrote:
> >> I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
> >
> >> On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
> >>> just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
> >
> >>> Ted
> >
> >>> >-----Original Message-----
> >>> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >>> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of James Earl
> >>> >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM
> >>> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >>> >Subject: Intel Mac experiences
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >Hi,
> >>> >
> >>> >I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with
> > getting
> >>> >FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any
> >>> >experiences or development plans?  My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD
> > gets
> >>> >just past the boot menu and then stops.  OpenBSD boots further but
> > not
> >>> >all the way, and Gentoo Linux LiveCD runs great.
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