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Comment Re:Hey, Is this possible ? (Score 4, Interesting) 288

I think the best way to go about this would be to do something that was done to enable Linux to boot on old world Macs. On a PowerMac 8600 (for example) the best way to boot into PPC Linux, was to use a special boot loader called BootX http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/. Basically, it was an OS 9 program that immediately ran as OS 9 had a basic initialization startup. It gave you a choice to ether to continue to boot into OS 9 or boot into Linux. It is unique from other boot loaders in that it bypasses a computer's firmware and lets Mac OS handle it. I think this is the way to go....let OS X handle the boot process that deals with the firmware, then give users a choice to boot into Windows or finish with the OS X boot process.

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