Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?
- From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:07:47 -0700
No, I don't think it's framebuffer issue, since FreeBSD CD starts loading (I see message indicating that cdboot is trying to start BOOT/LOADER on the screen). My guess is that Apple has only implemented BIOS in amount necessary to bootstrap WinXP, while FreeBSD requires some functionality that doesn't exist.
-Maxim
Frode Nordahl wrote:
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
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