Suggestions on how to boot Windows XP on the Intel Mac
=======Suggestions on how to boot Windows XP on the Intel Mac
>>>>>>> .r7754Here is a condensed list of suggestions received from users during the day. None of these qualify as “the solution” but they may help the community get closer
- Boris Writes: Gateway’s Media Center computers utilize EFI and have a special modified version of Windows Media Center 2005 that allows it to boot. If someone could get their hands on the modified version of MCE, I think applying the same fix to XP would be only a matter of hours.
- Mailinux Writes: i found another way to run windows and lillo(i was surfing and i found this…
http://linuxbios.org/index.php/ADLO
this may require some work… but seems easyer than writing anefi extention(seen this in a famous article on running windows on mac) but mabe doing this is possible: boot from efi->boot linux-bios kernel->adlo->windows or lillo - Here are some references that I found:
- http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-64bit.mspx
- Implementing EFI on 32-bit systems [ppt]
- Thomas S. sugggested: A nice french guy was able to compile the free emulator bochs as a universal binary… a nice step between
- Computer Guru posted on his blog, a step by step potential solution. Problem is, he has no mac to try it on
January 28th, 2006 at 12:35 am
[...] So, what do you have to do to win this bounty? Well, you need to figure out how to boot Windows XP on an Intel-based Macintosh i.e., upon starting the computer, the bootloader must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP (dual boot capability). [...]
January 28th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Here is another article that might help.
“Intel Macs may boot XP after all”
regards,
jane
January 28th, 2006 at 4:52 am
from what I glossed over I think Gateway has a CSM module in EFI to boot legacy BIOS computers to WinXP MCE. I’m guessing that since Gateway built the hardware it wont be the same as getting whatever info from Apple to build a CSM with legacy BIOS support to boot a Macbook Pro to 32bit WinXP.
Also heard rumors that elilo isnt the most stable either.
plus it’s rather late so I may just be sleep deprived enough to have further convoluted what I faintly remember. Think I’ll just doze off to my dreams of a 12″ Macbook Pro release with WinXP dual-boot compatibility announced by Steve Jobs himself. ZZzz…..
January 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
The bochs emulator gave me an error message after Windows loaded the initial setup files. It says:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
With regards to the potential solution, I might try it if the links in the persons blog to the Vista boot files etc actually worked.
January 28th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Incase anyone wants to see a screenshot of what that error message window looks, like, click here:
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6170/picture25zw.png
And yes, I have tried restarting several times.
March 17th, 2006 at 5:04 am
Windows auf Mac…
Ein kalifornisches Team hat nun als Erstes geschafft, im Rahmen des von Colin Nederkoorn aufgerufenen Wettbewerbes, das Windows Betriebssystem auf einen Intel-Mac zum Laufen zu bringen. Die L??sung sieht vor, dass eine eigene Installations-CD von Win…