On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmatt...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:41 PM, peeter (must) <karu.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Carsten Mattner >> <carstenmatt...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Has anyone successfully installed DragonFly as a single >>> boot system on an EFI Mac? >> >> >> I'd be interested in this too. I failed: got the boot prompt and then >> the boot process hung. >> >> I also tried a gpt setup described on 'man gpt' but got the same >> result. I would be interested in setting up a dual boot but can't risk >> losing the main system, currently macosx. >> >> On a positive note, rEFIt recognized the DFBSD slice and gave the boot >> prompt, so something goes wrong after that. > > What I've learned for Mac 32-bit EFI and how to use it without OS X > but with rEFIt to allow booting all kinds of systems: > > - boot the OS X installer > - start Disk Util > - create a 200MB (it will actually force it to 1GB) HFS+ partition > - now you will have a 200MB unused FAT EFI protected partition and a > 1GB HFS+ partition > - boot a livecd which has a partitioning tool that can resize the HFS+ > partition > - resize parition #2 (HFS+ 1GB) to 200MB, that should be enough > - reboot into the OS X installer again > - put rEFIt on the HFS+ partition > - bless --folder ... etc. (see the shell script in rEFIt for the > command) to bless refit.efi > - if the resizing tool is non-destructive you could avoid booting > twice into the OS X installer and instead extract and configure rEFIt > on the 1GB partition > - reboot > - rEFIt should show up > - if BSD or Linux doesn't properly boot, make sure the hybdrid > partition table is synced (gptsync). rEFIt's partition tool menu item > should suggest to sync if needed > - if the installed rEFIt doesn't have the partition tool menu item boot > rEFIt ISO > - depending on what OS and bootloader you use you might want to add a > 3rd partition of 1MB size and type BIOS BOOT before BSD or Linux. > > PS: I'm not subscribed to u...@crater.dragonflybsd.org anymore. If > this is filtered, someone has to moderate it onto the list.
Thanks a lot for this! Will try as soon as I get a moment. Peeter --
