http://imil.net/blog/tags/efi/ Recent content in EFI on iMil.net Hugo en-us Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:53:12 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2017/running-debian-from-an-usb-stick-on-a-macbook-pro/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:53:12 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2017/running-debian-from-an-usb-stick-on-a-macbook-pro/ <p>Yeah well, it happened. In my <a href="http://imil.net/blog/2017/07/31/Running-FreeBSD-from-an-USB-stick-on-a-MacBook-Pro/">last post</a> I was excited to get back to a BSD UNIX (FreeBSD) for my laptop, <a href="https://twitter.com/iMilnb/status/892138918560374784">I thought I had fought the worse</a> when rebuilding kernel and world in order to have a working <em>DRM</em> module for the Intel Iris 6100 that is bundled with this <em>MacBook Pro</em> generation. But I was wrong. None of the BSDs around had support for the <em>BCM43602</em> chip that provides WiFi to the laptop. What&rsquo;s the point of a laptop without WiFi&hellip;</p> http://imil.net/blog/posts/2017/running-freebsd-from-an-usb-stick-on-a-macbook-pro/ Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:03:14 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2017/running-freebsd-from-an-usb-stick-on-a-macbook-pro/ <p>It is possible to run <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org">FreeBSD</a> on a <em>MacBook Pro</em> from an USB drive. To achieve this, we will first prepare the USB drive from a <em>GNU/Linux</em> machine and make it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface">UEFI</a> friendly:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># apt-get install parted</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#75715e"># parted /dev/sdc</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">(</span>parted<span style="color:#f92672">)</span> mklabel gpt </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">(</span>parted<span style="color:#f92672">)</span> mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 513MiB </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">(</span>parted<span style="color:#f92672">)</span> set <span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span> boot on </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#f92672">(</span>parted<span style="color:#f92672">)</span> quit </span></span></code></pre></div><p>From there, install <em>FreeBSD</em> as you would for exmaple using the <code>kvm</code> virtual machine <em>hypervisor</em> on the GNU/Linux machine. Answer &ldquo;yes&rdquo; when the installer suggests to create a <code>freebsd-boot</code> partition.</p>