OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #17
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
I seem to remember folks who had the systems posting information about them, including that intel wsa providing the boards for the dev boxe…
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OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #18
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Yeah, it's not pretty either, but I'm sure that Apple could do something much nicer and user friendly.
Just as Open Firmware isn't sh…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #19
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Originally Posted by sushiism
if it looks anything like this
http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/10127/4200-5.jpg
I'll be buying one of the last G5's and sticking with it for …
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #20
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
EFI is Intel's baby. They probably heavily encouraged Apple to use it, and Apple agreed.
As long as it provides similar functionality in …
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #21
As much as I would love Apple to adpot the old SGI invovation on the 320 and 540 workstations using a firmware driven scheme to run and boot x86 hardware from that model, it looked…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #22
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
Since the idea seems to be that you can have both XP and OS X running on the same machine (not to mention Linux, BSD and Solaris) it wo…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #23
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
Since the idea seems to be that you can have both XP and OS X running on the same machine
Nope. Apple only said that they would no…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #24
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
As much as I would love Apple to adpot the old SGI invovation on the 320 and 540 workstations using a firmware driven scheme to run and…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #25
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Originally Posted by RevEvs
My windows PC at work does not show any dos prompt or ugliness - so i doubt apples intel machines will.
My pc will show a image and then go s…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #26
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Originally Posted by ghporter
The picture the PC shows you is just there to hide all the command line stuff going on behind the scenes-it's still there, you just don't se…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #27
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Originally Posted by ghporter
My problem with EFI as I understand it is that it implements some form of DRM before the OS even starts to load. If I'm wrong, please corre…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #28
DRM is coming whether we like it or not. (unfortunately) and there's not a whole lot we can do about that. My main concern is that while Trusted computing is happening, Apple's not…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #29
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Meh. That assumes that Steve Jobs actually wants to have XP running on Mac hardware. In fact, it could just be the opposite. Either way, i…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #30
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Did you ever boot your Mac while holding down ⌘V? There is command line stuff behind the scenes as well. Who cares?
The command line stuff…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #31
I will answer your question this way:
Darwin has a built in boot loader which Startup Disk is a frontend to.
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #32
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Frankly, over almost two years of using OS X, I haven't seen ANY boot problems, though I've seen something like two dozen on my PC desktop d…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #33
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Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams
Well, the idea in my mind for this is that it makes the Mac that more attractive and "risk free" since you can run both OSes (plus a lo…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #34
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
It would be poor marketing to push at all the idea that a Mac can run Windows. We want to sell the Macintosh, not a CHRP system. If Apple s…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #35
Apple is a hardware company, but Apple is not a Windows hardware company.
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #36
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Is it confirmed already that the Intel-Macs will be standard PCs? It was my understanding that Apple switching to Intel processors doesn't au…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #37
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Originally Posted by ghporter
The only things I've seen confirmed are that Apple will use Intel processors, OpenFirmware is history, and that the final product computers …
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #38
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Did you ever boot your Mac while holding down ⌘V? There is command line stuff behind the scenes as well. Who cares?
isn't that behind os…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #39
"open firmware" isn't superior to a PC BIOS. It performs the very same functions.
You can get a pretty graphical 'firmware' interface in a peecee BIOS. Hell, some will even tal…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #40
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Meh. That assumes that Steve Jobs actually wants to have XP running on Mac hardware. In fact, it could just be the opposite. Either way, i…
OS X Intel Boot loader Question — #41
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Originally Posted by ghporter
The only things I've seen confirmed are that Apple will use Intel processors, OpenFirmware is history, and that the final product computers …