Re: Intel Macs that boot FreeBSD?


On 07/04/2006, at 10:32 AM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
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?

Dies before. I have not time to investigate the exact point when it dies.

-Maxim

It could be worth trying

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/06/parallels/index.php
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