Re: Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

On Nov 1, 2015, at 19:43, Greg Troxel wrote: > There are multiple stages of boot. The first sector usually has some > sort of "MBR" bootblock, and then the secondary blocks that you > installed and then /boot. So you may need gpt biosboot. Happy to report that i have finally

Re: Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

Patrick writes: >> However, I am pretty sure I had GPT issues and ended up zeroing the >> disk and using an MBR label, perhaps due to what you are reporting. >> Running fdisk and gpt show on the amd64 system confirms that. I was >> just trying to use the machine to test

Re: Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

Hi Greg. I have successfully installed 7.0 (beta, over the summer) on a core duo (not core2) macbook (not pro), in i386 mode, and on a cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz, id 0x6fb in amd64 mode. This is certainly reassuring. I had originally tried

Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

Hi. I am trying to install NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro, early 2006, in a dual boot configuration. The laptop was given to me so I have pretty much started from scratch: 1. Reformatted internal drive 2. Installed Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) from a retail DVD 3. Installed refind (Note 1) 4.

Re: Installing NetBSD 6.5.1 on a Macbook Pro 1,1 in a dual boot configuration

Patrick writes: > I've been reviewing the instructions at this link : > https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_an_apple_macbook_with_core2duo/ > and I believe the issue issue may be , "[s]ince you need GPT > partitions for rEFIt and OS X, dk(4} wedges will