Booting FreeBSD on a Macintosh?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/19/14 09:24, Raimundo Santos wrote:
> On 15 January 2014 17:26, Volker Nebel <vnebel at web.de> wrote:
>
>> Is type freebsd-boot wrong?
>
> Hello Volker,
>
> in MBR you do not need a boot partition. With the way MBR works you just
> need to set an active boot partition and write the right boot code where
> you need it.
>
> mdoc.su/f/gpart manpage have good example of doing this:
>
> Create an MBR scheme on *ada0*, then create a 30GB-sized FreeBSD slice,
>       mark it active and install the *boot0* boot manager:
>
> 	   /sbin/gpart create -s MBR ada0
> 	   /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd -s 30G ada0
> 	   /sbin/gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0
> 	   /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0
>
>       Now create a BSD scheme (BSD label) with space for up to 20 partitions:
>
> 	   /sbin/gpart create -s BSD -n 20 ada0s1
>
>       Create a 1GB-sized UFS partition and a 4GB-sized swap partition:
>
> 	   /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 1G ada0s1
> 	   /sbin/gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 4G ada0s1
>
>       Install bootstrap code for the BSD label:
>
> 	   /sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ada0s1
>
> Never try MBR creation within installer paprtition manager, maybe it create
> all these for you.
>

It does, in fact, if you select an MBR scheme.
-Nathan