acido Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 Hi friends! Well, this forum is big, and here there are programmers, designers, etc.. Now i think we can develop a similar "BootCamp for PC". what do you think? a Bootcampo where always say: "develop by OsX86project Team" What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 When we get Apple's EFI firmware working on EFI motherboards, BootCamp should also work. Otherwise, I think it is unlikely that a BootCamp-like program will work on generic BIOS machines because it seems to require a unique firmware functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 When we get Apple's EFI firmware working on EFI motherboards, BootCamp should also work. It will? That's the best thing I've heard since OSx86 was hacked for regular PCs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 It will? Yes, that's the idea. We want to make perfect Mac-clones. With EFI we can do this and things like BootCamp, BootSelector and TargetDisk mode will work just like they do on a real Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acido Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 it's fantastic! Great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Otherwise, I think it is unlikely that a BootCamp-like program will work on generic BIOS machines because it seems to require a unique firmware functionality. I was just thinking about this more and changed my mind. With EFI, I think it is possilble that one could write some data to the "non-volatile" (NV) RAM which is apparently stored on the hard drive for EFI, telling which mode to boot in, BIOS for Window or regular EFI for OS X. However, unless our working EFI knowledge progresses significantly, it is not very realistic to consider something like ths. Specifically, we need to overcome problems with loading some of Apple's .efi modules in the software EFI enivorment bootable on BIOS machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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