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Bounty For Booting XP on the Intel iMac
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 ;)
I don't know sounded fun so I tried it . ,then proceeded to use it to kick a Windows XP CD around the room.
But a little boot on the iMac's stand
Unfortunately due to a technicality , I can't claim the prize money.
I assume though I am the first person to boot windows with an iMac
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
What I want is to boot MacOS on my PC. How about a bounty for that?
Enbrickened.
Fracked.
Made to exhibit a Brickish form.
Relegated to brickhood.
Elevated to the Platonic ideal of "Brick".
Invited to join the elite group of formerly functioning Von Neumann machines now inculcated in the eternal, static realm of Brick. (FFVNMNIRSRB: pron. Fuff-van-man-IRS-Rub)
DEAD BRICKED.
Seriously, kids. Do try this at home. It is big, it is clever. And it will give us a laugh. Let's see you try and do that with your $3000 Alienware rig.
Muhahahahaha.
Not to be too picky, but the correct word, I believe, is "bricked". Although whether there's an actual dictionary definiton of the word in this context I do not know.
This is a new low for a grammar nazi... trying to correct a word that isn't even a word. Brilliant.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
From Dave Schroeder, posted to http://nak.journalspace.com/?cmd=displaycomments&d cid=407&entryid=407
By following these steps, the iMacs that had difficulty with certain EFI modules appear to have been restored to a functioning state:
1. Disconnect the internal hard disk
2. Disconnect the iMac from AC power
3. Plug in AC while holding the power button
4. Power up the iMac and zap NVRAM (cmd-opt-P-R)
The hard disk can be reformatted and the operating system restored.
If I could have a dual core machine with a really nice graphics card, and the machine was also cool, quiet, and attractive for $1300, and I could boot any OS I wanted on it (OS X, Linux, XP), I think I don't qualify as perverse. The iMac is a compact and powerful machine, and there's nothing available like it at the moment. Furthermore, give me the choice between carrying around two laptops or one (especially for developers or on-site technicians), can you possibly guess which one would be less expensive?
So, please, just drop this joke. It's been told a million times. If you don't have anything useful to say, just save your breath.
That Mac isn't dead... its pining for the fjords..
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Right, because no one else has other software needs than yours.
Turn your argument around. Nobody really "needs" a Mac in the first place. We could get everything we need to get done on a standard Windows PC, but instead we buy Macintoshes because we *want* to, not because we need to.
Surely you will admit that there are some very popular Windows packages that have not been ported to the Mac. As well about a million inhouse and vertical software packages designed for Windows. A lot of people in the Mac community see this as something that would be legitimately useful to them, and not just "because it's there". They're doing this because they think it would add value to their Mac system.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
There is no reason why typing commands at a prompt should completely brickify a computer. Result in data loss? Yeah. Mean you have to reinstall the OS? That's fine. But render a computer utterly incapable of being restored to a usable state by the user? Absolutely not. We're not talking about plugging the AC cable into the Firewire slot here, or dropping it from the top of the Empire State Building, we're just talking about experimenting with the subsystem that boots the computer in order to try to, legitimately, boot another operating system.
This isn't a slam against Apple here. I suspect these machines do, indeed, have a by-pass somewhere in them to restore the firmware (there's already a supposed fix circulating which may actually be the solution), and there are plenty of companies that also make it relatively easy to brick their systems (would it be too fucking much to add a $5 ROM to your $800 laptops that contains a "good" version of the firmware in case there's a problem with the flash?); far from it: I have great difficulty believing Apple would refuse to honour a warranty over such an issue, and I suspect, ultimately, they'll have a KB article up soon enough ensuring users can fix the issue themselves. In the event they do not, I'd be surprised if they're not seeing this as a design flaw, rather than a user issue.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
embricken
It could be one of those detached (or whatever it's called) German verbs...
Wann hast du deine iMac emgebricken?
Die iMac verbindung bricken em.
On the other hand there is no requirement on hardware manufacturers that their machines must be made to boot Windows, just because they have an x86-compatible chip inside.
EXACTLY!!! Most people don't get the idea that two computers can be completely different even if they have the CPU in common. Some examples:
- Z80: Game Boy, Game Gear, TI graphing calcs, and CP/M machines all have the same processor but totally different architectures.
- Motorola 680x0: Classic Macs, Amigas, and 68k-based TI graphing calcs are all different
- PowerPC: Power Macintoshes and PREP machines are incompatible.
Perhaps the x86 Macs are PC-compatible, but nothing says they HAVE to be. Just look at history.
Microsoft-free since March 28, 2004