Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs?

From: David Leimbach <leimy2k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:05:51 -0800
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.

Dave
Received on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 21:05:53 UTC

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