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Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-a-waste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The race is on. You can try to get the bounty for booting Windows XP on iMac. At this moment there is $2773 waiting for the winner. However several people have brickified their iMacs when playing with EFI." I imagine those tech support calls are hysterical ;)

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  1. Don't they have this backwards? by SlickCow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What I want is to boot MacOS on my PC. How about a bounty for that?

  2. No EFI backwards compatibility module on iMacs by Randall311 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Therefore getiing XP to boot natively won't happen. There is still a chance at booting Windows Vista though, as it supports EFI. The only thing to overcome is the ACPI requirement that Vista has. The intel chip and mobo inside the iMacs stupport ACPI, but of course it has been removed from Apple's version of EFI. Find a way to get ACPI support onto the Mactel's EFI, and you should be able to have a dual boot config with Windows Vista.

  3. Xen and Vanderpool by affinity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does the "Core Duo" processor include the Vaderpool virtualization extensions.
    And if Xen is able to use Vanderpool to transparently support WindowsXP/2003 then, would using Xen be the best way to go, with out having to deal with the Boot issue.

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  4. Re:the opposit by Golias · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The "restore" DVD contained a normal Mac OS X 10.4 installer

    It has recently been established that the "normal" Mac OS X 10.4 DVD which comes with the new iMac will not work on other Macs.

    I believe that's what the grandparent post wast bitching about.

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