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Linux & iMac II: Knoppix

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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.

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chiefsalami

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?

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lord_muad_dib

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

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dataworm
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 :2cents: ) 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 :D

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