On 11 Jan 2006, at 22:05, David Leimbach wrote: > 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. When I wrote the EFI bootloader for ia64, I spent a small amount of time trying to make it possible to port to an i386 EFI environment. I reckon it would only take a day or two to do the port. If someone donates a nice new 20" iMac to me, I'll even do the work :-)Received on Thu Jan 12 2006 - 13:09:46 UTC
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