Well, I suspect that with Bootcamp (since it's basically designed to boot/load Windows) that, yeah, some kind of NTBootloader would be needed to boot the kernel. But that would probably be a last resort. The biggest hurdle (from what I read) is the new EFI.
Taken from http://www.technewsworld.com/story/48510.html This article was specificaly geard towards "another" distro, but applies to any really. -- Specifically, the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), a relatively new BIOS replacement that Intel designed, is not yet commonly used or widely supported. Linux EFI does exist in a special form called elilo. However, the elilo code, dubbed LILO bootloader, would have to be ported to Intel's x86 architecture before Red Hat could integrate it into Linux distributions that would run on Apple's new hardware. -- Then I found this... http://refit.sourceforge.net/ And this... http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-198453.html So, it looks like it's possible... yes. I don't want to be the first to try it... so please, someone let me know how it works ;) r. On Tue, June 27, 2006 8:39 am, James Fryman wrote: > Does Bootcamp do a straight boot to LILO or GRUB yet? I thought I had > read that it was possible to boot Linux on a MB(P), but that one had to > chain a loader using the NTBootloader or something along those lines. > > .:: On 06/27/2006 10:57 AM - randy wrote ::. >> I'd be interested in that as well. I have a new MBP that I would be >> interested in seeing how well Linux performs on this machine. >> >> r. >> >> >> On Jun 27, 2006, at 6:27 AM, Roberto Griso wrote: >> >>> Anyone has tried to install arch on a mac intel based? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> arch mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > -- > ------------------------- > James Fryman > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cell : 757.812.3126 > GnuPG : 0xDAE2C750 > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
