[OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting current generation (EFI) laptops?

[Jerry Kemp]

I don't have a helpful comment here, but I certainly wish you luck.

Sometime 4th quarter, Apple has planned to release their new Mac Pro, aka 
Mac-mini Pro, aka trashcan Mac.

Nothing would make me happier that to purchase one of these for use as a desktop 
and to run OI on it, then to be able to run OS X server legally in a VM.

Jerry


On 09/19/13 02:06 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there some magic required to boot OI on laptops with EFI?
>
> I did not have any luck with a usb drive in a store yesterday, on
> their display machines, and since I want to buy one explicitly for
> OI/Illumos development I really want one that has the basics working
> out of the box.
>
> Of course I'm not 100% sure I created the usb bootable thing
> correctly, so I'll give that a try over the weekend or something, on
> yesteryear's hardware, before trying again.
>
> If there're recommendations for some models, I'm also all ears.
>
> My current requirement list: nvidia, intel cpu, working ethernet.
>