Intel Mac experiences

[Don Hinton]

Hi:

On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:20, James Earl wrote:
> 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.  :)

If you tried to boot windows, you'd have the same problem.  Mac intel doesn't 
have bios support, it must be emulated.

And no, I don't have one either...

ciao...
don
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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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