Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?


On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

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.

Does it drop you to the loader prompt or die before that?

Andy

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