Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?

On 5. apr. 2006, at 16.09, Eric Anderson wrote:

Is this what is needed to get it booting FreeBSD?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

According to this:
http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php? s=&showtopic=14048&view=findpost&p=89523

The actual magic is in a Firmware update wich seems to add some Legacy BIOS support to make it work. Boot Camp is just a nice helper to resize your hard drive and provide some Windows drivers in a package :-)

I just tried to boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro, and it did seem to start booting, but I could not see anything, just a white / grey screen.

I guess I need framebuffer support?

I am downloading Fedora now and will give it a shot shortly.


How would I go about building a FreeBSD CD with a framebuffer on it? :-)

Frode Nordahl
frode@xxxxxxxxxxx



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