Hello,
I have installed FreeBSD 10 to my 2008 aluminum iMac. I followed the procedure described here:
https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html
I partitioned the hard drive using OSX's Disk Utility, with 25GB allocated for OSX and the remainder for FreeBSD. I installed reFit and can boot into OSX without problems.
Following installation of OSX and reFit I booted the FreeBSD 10 bootonly CD, deleted the large partition and repartitioned the free space to give the following partition scheme (gpt) for the drive:
Following installation I ran (from the live cd) the command:
which returned:
When I attempt to boot FreeBSD from the hard drive I get:
Any help in troubleshooting this will be much appreciated.
sprock.
I have installed FreeBSD 10 to my 2008 aluminum iMac. I followed the procedure described here:
https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html
I partitioned the hard drive using OSX's Disk Utility, with 25GB allocated for OSX and the remainder for FreeBSD. I installed reFit and can boot into OSX without problems.
Following installation of OSX and reFit I booted the FreeBSD 10 bootonly CD, deleted the large partition and repartitioned the free space to give the following partition scheme (gpt) for the drive:
Code:
Part type mountpoint size
ada0p1 efi 200M
ada0p2 apple-hfs 25G
ada0p3 freebsd-boot 64k
ada0p4 freebsd-ufs / 206G
ada0p5 freebsd-swap 1.8G
Following installation I ran (from the live cd) the command:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 3 ada0
which returned:
bootcode written to ada0
When I attempt to boot FreeBSD from the hard drive I get:
No bootable device --insert boot disk and press any key.
Any help in troubleshooting this will be much appreciated.
sprock.