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See my thread at http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=33297. I may have tried his instructions. "Bootcode written to ada0p3" is wrong IMO in his tutorial. To get back OSX, I believe you can either boot from a cloned HD, a rescue OSX CD/DVD, or if you have none of these you need to boot...

Does that mean that the GEM and KMS developed for Intel GPUs also work for AMD GPUs? Hopefully TTM is planned for FreeBSD 10, is it? Maximini

Success!!! I now have the system booting to the external drive automatically. :beergrin :beergrin :beergrin All I had to do was to 1) edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf to have sbp_load="YES" (instead of "NO") and 2) edit /etc/fstab in the FreeBSD installed on the internal drive to essentially...

After much trial and error, I have FreeBSD 9.0 booting on the internal drive of the Mini :beergrin (Note this is a Hybrid MBR install, not an EFI install, which would have my preference but I can't find out how to create .efi files to boot freebsd from the EFI partition; perhaps I can do this...

I have tried for days to progress with Grub2 unsuccessfully. So started from scratch. Created both freebsd-boot and freebsd-ufs partitions on my internal HDD. Copied /boot to freebsd-ufs. Use "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 5 ada0" where '5' is the index of the freebsd-boot partition...

Status update... I used http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html as an inspiration for what follows. 1/ In Mac OSX Disk Utility, created a 1GB FAT partition after my OSX partition on the Mini's internal drive. 2/ Restarted and booted from the USB stick containing FreeBSD. 3/...

Alright! I am now able to boot to the external Firewire using Torfinn's suggestion. Here is where I am. Using rEFIt (though I suspect it would work without), I was able to boot to the FreeBSD system on the external USB drive, hit '2' when the "beastie" menu appeared, enter "load sbp", "set...

Torfinn, Am back to the machine. Followed the handbook instructions to create a bootable USB from the amd64 memstick.img and it boots. Good (I used a new USB stick as my previous attempt with an old one failed). Once at the beastie menu, I chose 2. lsdev there shows the USB as disk0 with...

Yes the Mini i5 is plenty powerful for virtual box but I need the system to not be physically in the same box. Too much could go wrong otherwise as the Mini is also used as a HTPC and regular computer for day to day tasks at home by others, not to mention burglars love to take those apple...

Thanks Torfinn. I am unfortunately away from the machine for a while but I will give this a try using the CD (I think I tried booting from a USB but got nowhere on the Mini). Could you just precise which partition of the FreeBSD install I should use: freebsd-boot? Thank you, Maximini

Torfinn, Thank you for the pointer. I happen to have had more luck with an MBR partitioning than a GPT one. On my external drive connected to the Mini via USB, an MBR install boots fully albeit slowly. A GPT install stops at mountroot and I am yet to figure out how to make it go farther. Not...

Well it turns out the message I see on the black screen is a Mac OSX message. I found an explanation at the following link: http://www.crystalorb.net/mikem/linux_mbp_external.html (thank you Mike :) ). Though this is for Linux it should be adaptable to FreeBSD without too much pain. I just...

Following up on this as I have progressed the installation, it seems the highest resolution I can achieve with VESA is 1280x1024 on my monitor that is capable of at most 1680x1050. Is this a VESA limitation? Would having a Radeon KMS in FreeBSD allow increasing the resolution? If not, how can I...

Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I successfully installed ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/re...amd64-dvd1.iso on external HD attached to a Mac Mini 2011 i5 2.5GHz with AMD Radeon HD 6630M via a Mc Ally FireWire800/USB2.0 enclosure PHR-S250UAB. Installation using USB 2.0 worked fine and I was...

Success! For some reason "If a black and grey grid and an X mouse cursor appear, the configuration was successful." in the handbook made me think I should see a grid similar to what shows in twm when you move a window. Thank you for clarifying. So far VESA is plenty fast. I will continue...

Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I successfully installed ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso on external HD attached to a Mac Mini 2011 i5 2.5GHz with AMD Radeon HD 6630M. I am following the FreeBSD Handbook instructions in an...