Hey yall, I'm still having trouble with installing FreeBSD on my Macbook. Instead of installing on a VM, I'm now using a partition slice on my Macbook's HD. I've got rEFIt on the first slice (which is invisible to DiskUtility and installs itself automagickally there, Mac OSX on the second, OpenGEU on the third, and the next two are clean EXT3 slices.
I installed FreeBSD on the fourth slice after to OpenGEU and got nothing in the rEFIt boot loader, but when I "rebless" my disk with rEFIt it sees the FreeBSD partition and changes it to HFS+! After that I still get nothing in the boot loader. I then tried PC-BSD both with and without it's (I think GRUB) boot loader, and I did see the FreeBSD icon in the rEFIt bootloader, but it goes into a text based boot loader (GRUB?) showing me: 1. (Blank) 2. (Blank) 3. Linux 4. FreeBSD
I choose FreeBSD and the text outputs a hash (#) symbol over and over again, so I can't get it to boot. I think (GRUB?) is the problem. After that I reboot and the FreeBSD icon is gone from rEFIt.
I now repartitioned my last two slices to EXT4, but they now show up as EXT3. If anyone could recommend advice, that'd be great.
Also, how should I properly partition and install FreeBSD? Either the partitions or the FreeBSD bootloader seems to be the problem.
Here is my Partition Inspector Output:
I installed FreeBSD on the fourth slice after to OpenGEU and got nothing in the rEFIt boot loader, but when I "rebless" my disk with rEFIt it sees the FreeBSD partition and changes it to HFS+! After that I still get nothing in the boot loader. I then tried PC-BSD both with and without it's (I think GRUB) boot loader, and I did see the FreeBSD icon in the rEFIt bootloader, but it goes into a text based boot loader (GRUB?) showing me: 1. (Blank) 2. (Blank) 3. Linux 4. FreeBSD
I choose FreeBSD and the text outputs a hash (#) symbol over and over again, so I can't get it to boot. I think (GRUB?) is the problem. After that I reboot and the FreeBSD icon is gone from rEFIt.
I now repartitioned my last two slices to EXT4, but they now show up as EXT3. If anyone could recommend advice, that'd be great.
Also, how should I properly partition and install FreeBSD? Either the partitions or the FreeBSD bootloader seems to be the problem.
Here is my Partition Inspector Output:
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*** Report for internal hard disk ***
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 299138455 Mac OS X HFS+
3 299400600 362315159 Basic Data
4 362577304 425487239 Basic Data
5 425749384 488134983 Basic Data
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective
2 409640 299138455 af Mac OS X HFS+
3 * 299400600 362315159 83 Linux
4 362577304 425487239 83 Linux
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+
Partition at LBA 299400600:
Boot Code: GRUB
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 83 Linux, active
Partition at LBA 362577304:
Boot Code: None
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 83 Linux
Partition at LBA 425749384:
Boot Code: None
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 5, type Basic Data