Booting FreeBSD on a Macbook Pro (not dual-boot)

gregghz

gregghz

I've just installed freebsd FreeBSD 9.1 from the disc1 image on my MacBook pro (8,1) but the Apple bootloader doesn't recognize the OS and just gives me a flashing question mark when I attempt to boot the system.

After the install completed, and before the reboot I followed the instructions shown here (just the gpart commands, I used the guided partitioning): https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html in the hopes that it would work even though I'm not dual booting. It didn't work.

Does anyone have an idea of how I can get the bootloader to recognize the OS?
 
neelwebs said:
Reinstall FreeBSD with an MBR partition scheme. Then your Macbook Pro would boot FreeBSD.
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How do I do that? I suspect it's something I do during the partitioning portion of the install?
 
gregghz said:
How do I do that? I suspect it's something I do during the partitioning portion of the install?
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Read step 1 to 4 from the post @trev mentioned.
 
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Thanks, I got it working with your help. But I had to manually specify MBR during the freebsd FreeBSD install, otherwise it wouldn't boot.
 
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