Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what you said is true. booting linux on an intel mac... never said it > couldn't be done or hasn't been done ;) it takes a bit more effort to > do it... you have to have bootcamp. EFI is already supported by the > linux kernel but there hasn't been any "explosion" in booting mac > hardware using linux. whats the point other than it being an academic > exercise? both are "cousins," tech-wise--- you can port just about > any app between them... and you could run linux on cheaper hardware. > hehehe. running linux on a mac makes more sense using a vm than going > through the trouble of bootcamping.
Ummm... my point was that you don't *need* bootcamp to boot on an EFI-based machine. Let me repeat: You don't need bootcamp to boot Linux on an EFI-based Intel Mac. See http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/ for more info. To quote: Here are some facts about Boot Camp to get a picture of what is involved in making it work. See the following sections on what is actually needed/recommended for booting Windows or Linux. When Apple released the first Boot Camp Beta in April 2006, they actually released three separate pieces that were all required to make it work: 1. The Mac OS X 10.4.6 Update added several capabilities to the OS and its tools: □ Online resizing of HFS+ volumes (kernel and diskutil) □ Hybrid GPT/MBR partition table support (diskutil and Disk Utility) □ Ability to select Windows partitions and CDs as boot volumes (Startup Disk and bless) 2. Firmware updates for the iMac, Mac mini and MacBook Pro added a BIOS compatibility module, including detection of BIOS-bootable disks and CDs in the built-in boot volume chooser. This has been part of Intel Mac firmwares ever since. 3. The actual “Boot Camp” download containing the “Boot Camp Assistant”. The Boot Camp Assistant has exactly two functions. It provides a nice user interface to resize the Mac OS X partition and create/remove a Windows partition, and it contains a CD image with Windows XP drivers for Intel Mac hardware (including a Startup Disk control panel for Windows). Summary: You don’t need the actual Boot Camp package to install Windows or Linux, but it usually helps. Again. No bootcamp needed (although it helps). There are of course parts of the Linux system that *do* depend on the BIOS (but mostly this is the X11 server, Xorg, and its drivers). -- JM Ibanez Senior Software Engineer Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
