Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
rbw wrote:
O.K. I'm wondering what can be done with those nice Core-2-Duo Apple
MacBooks that I saw on price grabber.com.
Would it be possible to maybe boot the thing with Knoppix and then
"dd" (or one of the other methods Josh mentioned in re: "The Great
SparkPlug Migration" thread) the entire MacBook system somewhere else
THEN XEN-alize the MacBook then bring the MACOS/System back onto the
MACBook in a XEN guest "dom(n>0)"?
The hardware works fine. However, I believe you need to run the
cracked version of OS X that works on generic x86 hardware since the
"trusted" module isn't virtualized.
The primary difference is in the firmware interface on the two machines.
Legacy x86 (Windows, Linux) boot through the mechanish inherent in the
Basic Input Output System (BIOS) interfaces. The Mac x86 hardware uses
the newer Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) firmware.
The BIOS code does not understand how to read the Mac HFS filesystem on
the DVD. EFI, OTOH, can and does read it. So, the first change the
cracked version does is set up a standard format part of the DVD that
boots with BIOS and loads the Mac image to run.
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