The triple boot possibly from hell.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:32:11PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> >Now that OS X works on Intel architecture it becomes possible to have
> > (or it soon will be possible to have)
> >a machine that triple boots into Windows, Fedora and OS X (or some
> >subset thereof.
> >
> >Has any one tried to boot OS X on an Intel machine with Windows or
> >Fedora?
> 
> I dual-booted Darwin+Linux on some IA32 boxes a year or so ago. Unless 
> something's changed, it should work much as Windows - the default MBR 
> looks for an active partition and loads a bootloader off it. It went 
> bereft if there was no active partition, a problem which lead me to read 
> the relevant code fairly closely.
Now I am really confused. How could yo have done this a year or so ago
when OS X on Intel has only been anounced last month?
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