>In reading through the recent Intel Mac Mini thread, I'm confused by what >appears to OpenBSD's support? OpenBSD now supports EFI? Or is EFI have some >compatibility mode with the older BIOS standard?
If the broader question is "does OpenBSD work on the Mac mini x86?" The answer is yes. Simply updating the firmware under OS X should make installation go smoothy. I have used it with the standard OpenBSD boot loader but have not yet tried dual booting with OS X. Holding down the option key will probably allow the firmware to see an OS X partition and boot from it. May people reportedly use rEFIt as an alternative loader: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ GRUB can also be used with some caveats (I learned this at 03:00 this morning and thought I would interject). I have not verified this with the GRUB in ports but the one in NetBSD's pkgsrc is not mac mini friendly. It can be patched if you are adventurous: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/mini-xen/grub-a20.patch Else you can pull "stage2" from a working Linux live CD such as a recent Ubuntu and install it with the 'grub' or 'grub-install' utilities. A system using GRUB may also need to have a root partition of under 512MB in size. A GRUB is a bug after all... Michael.
