On 7 March 2013, at 06:42, Richard Kuhns <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/07/13 01:59, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I have a new Mac Mini and have encountered the same problem reported last 
>> year by Richard Kuhns.  YongHyeon PYUN provided some patches to the kernel 
>> that resolved the problem.  However, without an internet connection its a 
>> bit tricky to get them into the system.  Here is the approach I believe will 
>> work, but wanted to check first before I really mess things up.
>> 
>> 1.  Downloaded from current today via svnweb.freebsd.org:
>>      sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h
>>      sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c
>>      sys/dev/mii/brgphy.c
>> 
>>    I believe the patches are incorporated in today's versions.  The comments 
>> indicate such.  Thus I don't need to apply the original supplied patch.
>> 
>> 2.  Put those on a flash drive.
>> 
>> 3.  Install 9.1 release from flash drive onto the Mini disk.  Have to 
>> include the system source.
>> 
>> 4.  Copy the files from 1 above from flash over the files on the disk.
>> 
>> 5.  Rebuild the kernel and install it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -- Doug
> 
> That's worked for me 3 times now.

Thanks.  Well, I got 9.1 Release installed, but it won't boot from the internal 
disk.  It doesn't see the disk as bootable.  I installed using the entire disk 
for FreeBSD.  I used the i386 release.  Perhaps I need to switch to the amd64 
release?

-- Doug

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