Swad Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Yesterday we reported on some success in booting Linux on an iMac. Today brings news of Knoppix 4 booting on a Macintel - the first time of which we're aware that someone has gotten X to work. According to the site, "we have been looking at Linux on this hardware some more, and we are glad to report that we now have a full-fledged Knoppix distribution working, complete with the X Window system. Once we have tested the system a bit more, we will try to release a full Knoppix distribution through Bit Torrent. We also have to trawl through the kernel source and the umpteen kernel "config" files so that we can release a coherent set of patches." The pictures show that while they're close to having it work perfectly... they’re not quite there yet. Nevertheless, great work guys. EDIT: Here is a page where they go into great depth as to how they've progressed. Interesting reading. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9568-linux-imac-ii-knoppix/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefsalami Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 So they've successfully booted Linux. Linux has a nice bootloader, which can then be used to boot up some other system. Does this get us any closer to being able to boot Windows on an Intel Mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9568-linux-imac-ii-knoppix/#findComment-60228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 woah that's great!!! looking their advancements seems that UGA isn't really a problem they only had to find the right memory address @chiefsalami: actually windows(vista ) does boot but fails loading the video driver Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9568-linux-imac-ii-knoppix/#findComment-60501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dataworm Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 woah that's great!!! looking their advancements seems that UGA isn't really a problemthey only had to find the right memory address @chiefsalami: actually windows(vista ) does boot but fails loading the video driver If it's just a memory address, maybe it's possible to patch the driver to correct the address Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9568-linux-imac-ii-knoppix/#findComment-65091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Anyone else notice the fact that the screen resolution isn't giving enough real estate for everything on the screen? Check out the clock Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9568-linux-imac-ii-knoppix/#findComment-67010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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