Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:02:18PM -0700, James Hartley wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Michael Dexter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A system using GRUB may also need to have a root partition of under > > 512MB in size. A GRUB is a bug after all... > > Do you have more information

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-24 Thread James Hartley
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Michael Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A system using GRUB may also need to have a root partition of under 512MB in > size. A GRUB is a bug after all... Do you have more information regarding this comment? Thanks.

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-24 Thread Michael Dexter
>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. Simp

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-23 Thread Tasmanian Devil
> In the case of modern Intel Macs, they have something called "Boot Camp" > that emulates the classic PC BIOS interrupts and services.. Um, no. EFI does that on its own, also with an empty or without a harddisk. Boot Camp is a software which runs on OS X, which contains Windows drivers and whic

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-23 Thread Unix Fan
Fred Snurd wrote: > 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? No. In the case of modern Intel Macs, they have something calle

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-23 Thread Tasmanian Devil
> 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? It emulates a standard BIOS if it can't find Apple specific info on any of the boot devi

OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-23 Thread Fred Snurd
Please excuse my ignorance. 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? Any information would be greatly appreciated. ___