FreeBSD on MacBook running Lion

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ddaley

Ok, I really want to be able to dual boot FreeBSD 8.x and OSX Lion on my late 2007 (white) MacBook3,1.

I started with the instructions here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook

I was not able to get very far. I created the partition using Boot Camp and rebooted using the FreeBSD 8.2 install DVD. I went into "Fix It" mode as suggested. However, when I run fdisk, it essentially outputs this:

Code: 
**** Working on device /dev/md0 *****
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=0 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are::
cylinders=0 heads=255 sectors/tracks=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
  start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
    beg: cyl 0/head 0/sector 1;
    end: cyl 1023/head 254/sector 63


Did Lion change or do away with the compatibility fdisk table? Has anyone installed FreeBSD on a MacBook that is currently running Lion?

Thanks
 
Alright... I made it to this step of the wiki:

Run "gpart show ad4" and verify block numbers match those shown by fdisk.
Click to expand...

Only problem is that my block numbers do not match what I set using fdisk. The first partition is supposed to start on 1 and have a size of 409639. However, gpart show ad4 shows that it starts on 40 and has a size of 409600.

Is there a way to set the correct values using gpart?

The other partitions look correct in both fdisk and gpart. Partition 1 only shows the correct values in fdisk.
 
Ok, I read further down in the troubleshooting section of the wiki, and my gpart shows the same info for partition 1 in the troubleshooting area.

I can boot to OSX, but no other boot options appear when holding down Option during boot. I can boot to OSX or to Recovery HD. There is no option for FreeBSD at this point.
 
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