Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.45.iso

[Newt <gen...@gm...>]

Hello,

Thanks for the info on REFIt. It sounds like an interesting project though I'm not
sure I want to venture down that path at the present time.

Personally, I'm not concerned with lilo automatically picking up my osx
installation as I can easily add it to lilo; plus, it's non-standard
implementation of osx for testing purposes. I was more thinking of other standard
osx users who might end up "locked out" of their systems if a boot option is not
included by default.

Then again, it's entirely possible that apple already has a forced scenario
whereby a non-apple bootloader always comes second in the boot process regardless
of user wants. Example: Perhaps efi always loads prior to mbr providing options of
'osx' and other bootloaders (lilo/grub/etc). This kind of scenario would alleviate
any necessity to detect and provide a boot option for osx since apple would
already have their users "protected". I don't have any true apple hardware so I
cannot say for sure.

Cheers, newt

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Monday, October 12, 2009, 3:36:29 PM, you wrote:

JB> Moe and all,

JB> Google may well be our friend on resolving Newt's problem in getting his OS
JB> X entry to show in the LILO menu. The REFIt project on sf.net may or may not
JB> be helpful to Newt:

JB> http://refit.sourceforge.net/ - rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit
JB> for EFI <http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/>-based machines like the Intel
JB> Macs <http://www.apple.com/hardware/>. You can use it to boot multiple
JB> operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It
JB> also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.



JB> Cheers,
JB> John