[K12OSN] OT: Apple Imac lab

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Mar 4 04:08:49 UTC 2009


R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
> You will be in luck, David.  Your new Mac hardware is Intel based, and
> you ought to find success with the latest K12Linux.  At the very
> least, you will find some enthusiastic debugging support until it gets
> there.

This is not the case.  Those new Intel Macs use EFI instead of BIOS with 
PXE.  EFI netboot is a bit non-standardized, especially Apple's screwed 
version of EFI.  I'm not sure if any distribution has Apple EFI netboot 
support yet.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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