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26Jan/064

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:
  • Steve
    Incase anyone wants to see a screenshot of what that error message window looks, like, click here:
    http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6170/picture25...

    And yes, I have tried restarting several times.
  • Steve
    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.
  • aaa
    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.....
  • Here is another article that might help.
    "Intel Macs may boot XP after all"

    regards,
    jane
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