FreeBSD 8.1 on MacBook 5,2

penguin_pam

I've been trying to dual-boot FreeBSD 8.1 with Mac OS X on my MacBook (5,2), but am having trouble trying to get the live cd to boot. I reach the FreeBSD Boot Loader Screen with the options for boot, boot without ACPI etc. However, I cannot select an option. I have tried with both the built in keyboard and a USB keyboard, but I do not think that that is the problem... Previously I have tried dual booting Ubuntu, but had problems with the live CD...

Originally asked by Jasper on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 2.5).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Have you tried booting with a disabled APIC? From: http://keramida.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/disabling-apic-on-freebsd/ Stop the boot process at the boot-loader prompt, “OK”. At the loader prompt, type: set hint.apic.0.disabled="1" Boot in “verbose” mode: boot -v

Full answer by polynomial: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/331544 (CC BY-SA 2.5).

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