Possible to run other OS's using XOM or Boot Camp?

[Cpgeek]

Hi,

I was just curious if anybody has had any luck with (or if it is even possible to get) other operating systems up and running on intel macs. os x works, linux works, now what about all of the other PC OS's. they shouldn't require porting, but rather a boot loader.

 

I'm most interested in things like the BSD's, BeOS, SkyOS, irix, solaris, etc.

 

any ideas if this is feasable?

[L EphIno]

Hi,

I was just curious if anybody has had any luck with (or if it is even possible to get) other operating systems up and running on intel macs. os x works, linux works, now what about all of the other PC OS's. they shouldn't require porting, but rather a boot loader.

 

I'm most interested in things like the BSD's, BeOS, SkyOS, irix, solaris, etc.

 

any ideas if this is feasable?

 

 

It very feasible, I have now booted SEVERAL other os's all seem to function and get me to the installer (Such as knoppix, opensuse 10, windows xp sp1, astaro, clark connect and freeBSD, solaris 10), getting them to boot would be possibly the only problem, and I've kinda come up with a work around for those interested, it appears that boot camp is still using the boot.ini for windows. I have a theory that we could repartition our drives and install the os's on these extra partitions. The issue seems to be when you hold down the option key that it will not show the other os's. I personally beilive that apple has put into their firmware the option to detect the ntdtl driver from xp for booting. I think that if we edit our boot.ini's on the windows side that we may indeed be able to use windows as our boot loader to launch our other os's. I haven't personally attempted this, lol i've reformatted my machine enough recently and kinda need to get back to the animation work But if anyone gives this a shot let me know how it works.