Trombone_Bob Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Well I have tried mutipule os's and Knoppix 4.2 boots with all the graphics on my mini with the new firmware. Windows 2000 boots but does not get past the "Setup is looking for hardware..." part. I have booted other linux distros and they seem to work. This leads me the think that the new firmware has a CSM in it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdar Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 I would agree..but it's not that compatable....Win 2000 not working, Vista not working, Win PE not working..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-89785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
settolo Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 so, what about trying to have 4 oses? OSX, XP with bootcamp, XP with XOM (maybe after the firmware update the video driver could work also in XOM) and linux? how to do it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-90072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Vista support will probably be supplied when boot camp comes out of beta and into Leopard, with a new firmware update at launch. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-90106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 What is a "CSM"? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-90315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Have you been living on mars for the past few months? OK seriously, it's an EFI compatibility layer that enables operating systems expecting a pc bios to operate on an efi only system. If you want more info that that search the forums. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-90364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Got it: CSM = Compatibility Support Module. I actually had googled CSM but that didn't jump out at me from the many entries returned. I didn't think to do the same search here. Should have. Anyway, is this any different from saying that the new firmware adds some simple legacy BIOS code to the existing EFI EEPROM or whatever it is that gets flashed in the update? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14109-new-firmware-seems-to-have-a-csm/#findComment-90580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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