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Boot Linux, BSD, and OS X from Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the by-your-bootstraps dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "NeoSmart Technologies has just released EasyBCD 1.5, complete with support for Vista, Windows NT/2k/XP, and Windows 9x/ME. EasyBCD 1.5 adds experimental support for dual-booting any of these along with Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD — straight from the Windows Vista bootloader without any additional configuration needed!" From the article: "Windows Vista's new bootmanager is a double-edged sword. It's one of the most powerful booting scripts in existence, and a far cry from the very limiting boot.ini of legacy Windows operating systems. But it overwrites the MBR without a second thought, and doesn't provide any means for users of alternate operating systems and boot managers to use their old system. That's where EasyBCD 1.5 comes in!" EasyBCD 1.5 is free.

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  1. BCD by Kinthelt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Why would I want to boot up to Binary Coded Decimals? So terribly inefficient.

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  2. Slashdoted by logik3x · · Score: 0, Redundant

    3 coments and already slashdoted... for once I was interested by a story...

  3. Re:Getting lots of OSes running by isecore · · Score: 0, Redundant

    me too!

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  4. Re:Apple is SOOOO Gonna SUE THEM by daveschroeder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Um, they're not saying this makes you able to boot OS X as-is. You can boot the hacked version of OS X that runs on non-Apple hardware via a bootloader; so what?

    Apple isn't going to sue anyone, because this doesn't enable, or more easily enable, any booting of Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware that wasn't already possible with the hacked versions of Mac OS X.

    Of course, your incorrect post is modded up as "Insightful", while my post which actually discusses the factual issues surrounding booting Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware (which is one of the OSes mentioned in the title and summary of this story) is being modded down as "Offtopic" as we speak.