{"id":394,"date":"2019-09-08T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T21:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/?p=394"},"modified":"2019-09-08T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T21:41:12","slug":"netbsd9-beta-boots-successfully-on-mac-mini-late-2014-mgen2ae-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netbsd.name\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"NetBSD9 BETA boots successfully on Mac mini late 2014 (MGEN2AE\/A)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First time I tested Mac mini late 2014 (MGEN2AE\/A) on NetBSD 7 which didn’t have a proper USB3 support. Since USB and thunderbolt are the only external ports, the system was literally useless at that time (my boot device was USB based flash drive, no input could be used as well). Later I bought thunderbolt hard drive which was booting on NetBSD 8 but I was still facing problems with non working USB devices. After some investigation I found out that all BSDs freeze on BIOS boot but FreeBSD\/OpenBSD were successfully booting on UEFI boot. I tried to do the same on NetBSD 8 but ended up with completely black screen stating “sync out of range” error. And finally on NetBSD 9 BETA it boots successfully! All USB devices work and screen is working properly too. There are few caveats though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n