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Suggestions on how to boot Windows XP on the Intel Mac

Here 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
  
I will add more links & ideas to this as and when people send them to me!
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