"I figured out a way to get into the EFI menu on the new Intel iMac. I was attempting to install Vista, which did not work. As I discovered from poking around in the EFI there is no support for UDF or El Torito volumes. It seems only GPT and APM is supported. Writing a driver for EFI to support UDF should be easy enough for someone who knows how, one might even exist already. I'm going to give step-by-step instructions for getting in to the EFI so that some enterprising people will get to work on installing Windows."
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... and you likely don't get opensource software either.
It is the same thing. We just want to figure out how it works. What is the boot loader? What else can you do with it? How does the boot loader jump to the OS boot code?
It is the age old story, why did you climb Mt. Everest? Because it was there!
And in the process of doing so you may just learn something kewl.
Member since:2006-01-20
Because I'm a small software company with about 2/3rds Windows users and 1/3rd Mac users for customers. The stuff I write is multithreaded so I have to keep a dual processor box around for each platform for testing and debugging. For a portable I use a Windows laptop because it's cheaper, faster, more of my customers use it, and because Visual Studio.NET is way nicer to work in than CodeWarrior. If I could get a dual processor machine that dual boots into Windows and OSX, I can consolidate from 3 machines to 1. It saves me a ton of money and trouble.
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2005-07-06
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm just stupid. I don't get why everyone seems to be so hopped up on getting Windows to boot on the new Intel-based Macs. Can someone please explain it to me?
Just about every 'review' I've read about the new Macs has concluded with something like: Tried to install XP. Didn't boot from CD. Tried Vista build blah-blah-blah, didn't work either.
Move on people. Apple said from the start they didn't want people installing Windows on these machines.
That, and the fact that you paid twice as much for the mac than a Windell box. Why'd you pay all that money, and I suspect a large portion of it for the OS, only to try and get Windows on it.
Like I said. Maybe I don't get it because I'm slow...