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Linux boots on Intel iMacs
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Posted by dan on: 2006-02-16 22:37:48 Article Viewed : 141
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If you want to run Windows on your Intel-based iMac, you may have a long wait. However, if your goal is to just run an OS other than Mac OS X, you're in luck.
| Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17" iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader's framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel with a compiler that runs on linux, which was compiled in linux, on a mac running the new intel duo processors. |
Obviously, they've still got some work to do before they can do anything useful with the OS, but it's a major step.
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