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On Thu, Jul 19 2007 - 15:51, Johan Ihren wrote:
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>> any feedback on using Xen on an Intel Mac Mini ?
>> especially on the following points :
>> - with a recent OPF, does it boot straight away, without bootcamp ? I re=
ad
>> that on /i386 but as Xen boots using Grub, there may be differences ?
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> I'm also very interested in this. In <20070311174938.GA19935@panix.com>=
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> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote that
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>> Again, no.  The latest EFI firmware for the Mini will launch a tradition=
al
>> PC BIOS and boot from an MBR partition if it sees no GPT partition table
>> on the disk.  But you must have the latest firmware.
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that's the thread I refered too.

> This sounds like it ought to be possible to boot via grub from the PC BIO=
S=20
> and that way get the Dom0 running as usual. But has anyone actually=20
> suceeded with this?
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yes, sounds like on apple's site too:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macminiefifirmwareupdate11.html

the point that "scares" me more if the fact that a mini wouldn't be
bootable headless... I'd like confirmation of that before buying one.

Regards,
	Jo


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