Installing FreeBSD 10.0 on a Mac Mini

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Tue Oct 21 14:46:25 UTC 2014


On 10/21/14 09:13, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 21/10/2014 13:26, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:15:25 +0200
>> "Allan K. Bak" <akb at bakslash.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Apple Mac Mini MD388
>>> Intel Quad-Core i7 processor/2.3 GHz
>>> 3rd gen. CPU
>>> HD: SATA
>>> Storage: 1TB
>>> Gfx card: Intel HD Graphics 4000
>>> USB 3.0
>>>
>>> As far as I was able to find out this was the version to install (I
>>> don't have a DVD drive):
>>>
>>> FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img
>> I would have used the FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img, for the
>> I7 is a 64Bit machine.
>
> Also, don't Macs use (U)EFI to boot? That's not officially supported 
> until 10.1, which is currently at RC2, actual RELEASE version coming 
> soon.
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I am booting this box (Jaguar kabini desktop, ASRock mbd, UEFI BIOS) 
under FBSD 9.3 & it boots OK .... I'm not doing/trying anything exotic, 
but nonetheless ....

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