Re: freebsd-current_at_lists.freebsd.org

Rui Paulo writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > Arne Schwabe writes:
 > >  > Andrew Gallatin schrieb:

 > >  > > rEFIt also fails (with some interesting comments regarding how apple's
 > >  > > firmware does not deal well with booting a legacy OS from firwewire).
 > >  > > I ran out of time before I could shuffle MacOSX to the external drive
 > >  > > to free up the internal one for FreeBSD.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Oh well, back to MacOSX and dealing with X crashing every few weeks.
 > >  > >
 > >  > >   
 > >  > You could resize your hfs+ parition (diskutil) and put a small boot
 > >  > parition on your internal harddisk. Works fine on my Macbook Pro (but
 > >  > still not usable, missing GPU support :( )
 > > 
 > > That's an option, but I was initially reluctant to touch
 > > my internal disk.  I'm also somewhat upset that the machine
 > > can boot BSD or Linux only from an internal drive.  If I were
 > > to convert it to FreeBSD, then I'd be totally hosed when the internal
 > > drive dies (its really buried in an iMac).
 > 
 > Have you tried booting BSD from Firewire with the help of rEFit?
 > http://refit.sf.net

Yes, as I said above "rEFIt also fails.." :(

It did mention something about "USB", where this was actually
a firewire drive.  So perhaps something is getting confused
regarding firewire and usb.  

Drew