On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> With BIOS limiting the size of the disk to 2.19TB this is a problem. And >> also Apple's CSM BIOS implementation is incomplete (not all information >> needed for supporting OS's is there, but would be in EFI if Apple were using >> standard UEFI instead of effectively a proprietary EFI implementation). So >> anyway, it's a problem for dual booting. And there doesn't seem to be a >> great reason why Apple is still not using UEFI other than "Apple EFI" is >> working OK for them and just aren't highly incentivized to making their >> hardware fully standard so it can boot any OS. > > Another point is that the CSM BIOS Apple is using does not appear to support > USB booting, whereas their EFI does. So it's not possible for Mac OS hardware > to be used with "Linux on a stick". And supposedly Windows 8 is going to be > UEFI only, dropping BIOS.
Are you sure about this? Everything I've read is that it can boot off of USB. In fact Apple officially supports it with some specific notes. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1948 They only mention windows and os x but I am sure you could boot linux this way assuming everything is setup correctly. --Larry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
