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Ok, I have a vista laptop (plenty of HDD space) that i installed ubuntu onto via wubi (www.wubi-installer.org). After examining how exactly wubi did this without any partitioning, one can only wonder why you can't use wubi to install a mac (*cough* deadmoo's tiger.img *cough*) operating system the same way, e.g. no partitioning.

 

It's tricky - here's how wubi works:

 

1. computer boots past bios, loads the windows bootloader which gives the option Vista/xp or ubuntu. i select ubuntu.

2. NTLDR loads grub from the c:\ubuntu\something.mbr file

3. grub loads the kernel into memory from the C:\ drive, loads the NTFS drivers, then mounts the file C:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk as /

4. ubuntu happily boots

 

I tried loading the kernel and booting from /tiger.img, but just got errors. anybody with or without a computer science degree have any idea? And please, don't delete my post and don't just tell me no - I REALLY want this to happen as this is the essence of hacking.

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