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Re: Re: Running Xen on mini/i386 ?



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 read
>> that on /i386 but as Xen boots using Grub, there may be differences ?
>
> I'm also very interested in this. In 
> <20070311174938.GA19935%panix.com@localhost> 
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote that
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>> Again, no.  The latest EFI firmware for the Mini will launch a traditional
>> 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.
>

that's the thread I refered too.

> This sounds like it ought to be possible to boot via grub from the PC BIOS 
> and that way get the Dom0 running as usual. But has anyone actually 
> suceeded with this?
>

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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