On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:14:13AM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:09:13PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> > Hi people!
> > I have come close, according my profession to buy myself the latest Mac
> > Mini Server.
> > 
> > Because I do all of my development stuff on Gentoo and Windows, I am
> > highly interested to know if any of you guys is running Mac OS X and
> > Windows beside Gentoo and boot from GRUB.
> > 
> > 
> > What I hear all the time from other people, is this "bootcamp"
> > application apple has published a while ago. What is this bootcamp?! Is
> > this a boot-loader or BIOS ?! What is it?
> > 
> > If I am not really wrong, I suggest, that bootcamp is nothing else as a
> > bootloader that does in reality nothing else like GRUB.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tamer
> > 
> 
> "Boot Camp is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s OS X that
> assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on
> Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility's Boot Camp Assistant
> guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including
> resizing of an existing HFS+ partition, if necessary) of their hard disk
> drive and installation of Windows device drivers. The utility also
> installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the boot operating
> system."
> 
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_%28software%29
> 
> You might also want to take a look at rEFIt [0] if you want to boot Linux on
> your Mac Mini.
> 
> [0] - http://refit.sourceforge.net/

Oh apparently rEFIt is no longer actively maintained. Therefore, take a
look at rEFInd [0].

[0] - http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
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