On 1/11/06, Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote: > > alan bryan wrote: > > >I read that the new Intel (x86) Macs use EFI rather > >than the traditional PC Bios to boot up. I'm > >interested in using one of these to multiboot OS X and > >FreeBSD and am wondering if it is yet known to work or > >not. Do any changes need to be made to FreeBSD or > >should it work out of the box? Thanks for any insight > >and I know that it may be impossible to fully answer > >until people get their hands on the hardware but I > >just wanted to start thinking about the possibilities. > > > > > well if they can boot Darwin I'm sure they can be hacked to boot FreeBSD. > It would probabty require a different bootloader binary. I don't see what booting Darwin has to do with booting FreeBSD. However, since FreeBSD boots on IA64 using the FreeBSD bootloader for IA64, I *hope* it won't be much work to port whatever changes that requires to IA32. DaveReceived on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 21:05:53 UTC
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