From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting plan9 on intel macs
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:11:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246299105.77647.256.camel@legolas.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60906291028w9c999a1rb85cfe8c68ade2fe@mail.gmail.com>
I accidentally installed a FreeBSD drive in my MacBook. To my surprise,
it just worked. If you install a boot drive with the "usual" PC disk
partitioning the Macs will boot in what seems to be a fairly complete
BIOS emulation.
How far Plan9 gets is another story, but my guess is that even if it
sees the disk controllers properly, it's not going to like the NIC(s).
Don't even try to install it on a Mac. Instead, pull the drive and do
the install on a normal PC, then stick the drive back into the Mac. This
might give you a fighting chance, but it's inevitable you'll be doing
driver work before long.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-29 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-29 16:15 Brad Frank
2009-06-29 16:20 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-29 17:28 ` David Leimbach
2009-06-29 17:33 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-06-29 18:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2009-06-29 22:20 ` J.R. Mauro
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