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Okay, I meanwhile got that even the most new Mac Mini Servers make use |
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of the earliest implementations of EFI that Windows doesn't understand. |
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The only way to get Windows booted propperly is in BIOS emulation mode, |
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but that Partitions wouldn't be recognized (according it's emulation)..... |
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Am 30.05.2013 10:04, schrieb Andrea Conti: |
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> No. :) |
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Please tell me the order which way I have to install the OS's (having 2 |
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x 1TB Disks available). Is there a way for me to get |
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OSX, Win and Gentoo on 1 disk ?! |
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> While Intel Macs are EFI platforms, they have an early and quirky |
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> implementation that cannot properly boot Windows in EFI mode, so you're |
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> stuck with booting in BIOS emulation mode, |
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Do I have to activate the emulation mode somewhere?! |
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which in turn means that |
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> Windows will not use the GPT table. This is a really stupid Windows |
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> limitation, but we can't do anything about it. |
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hmmmmm.... |
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> The Linux kernel can use GPT with no restrictions, however booting is |
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> another story. |
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> Booting directly from GPT requires a GPT-aware bootloader such as GRUB |
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Intel Mac's are EFI Platforms that cannot boot Windows and that we would |
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have to deal with BIOS Emulation that wouldn't make us of the GPT Table. |
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fine, and wonderfull.... |
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Now I have Grub2 with GPT support available, we can boot Gentoo and OsX |
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but what about Windows which runs in BIOS emulation mode, and won't make |
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use of the GPT table.... |
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> 2. Alternatively you can use GRUB legacy, |
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Now how do we mix with GRUB Legacy?! |
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after there is Mac OSX installed. |
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as I red about GUID (GPT) appears in the system as a full reserved MBR |
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entry. How do you plan to make after installing OSX one other MBR record |
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with Grub legacy without breaking afterwards the GUID partition entry?! |
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but you need an entry in the |
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> MBR for the boot partition. The root partition (and any other |
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> partitions) need not appear in the MBR, as they are mounted by the kernel. |
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> OSX uses GPT natively and does not need MBR entries for its |
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> partition(s). The only exception is if you want read-only access to an |
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> HFS+ partition in Windows through the driver provided by BootCamp; in |
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> that case you need to ensure that the first entry in the hybrid MBR |
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> covers the HFS+ partition you want to access. |
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I don't need access from Windows to read a HFS+ partition. I would |
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propably make myself a small ext3/4 partition (or if possible making use |
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of the 2nd disk as ext4 and that would it be), that would be the entry |
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point for the OS's to access the FS, and I believe that OSX system has |
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the ability to mount ext3 types.... Or no drivers from the opensource |
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world available ?! |
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> andrea |
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Thanks for your time Andrea! |
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I know, you must really hate me right now, but I want to jump in the Mac |
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world, but without loosing Windows and Gentoo :( |
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If you say, that it is shitt difficult and it's better for me to keep |
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the fingers away of it, then I do what you want from me. |
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If you tell me, it is it worth, then I would kindly thank you providing |
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me as much infos as possible, because in max 2 weeks my new mac server |
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(max built) would be there to be misused by my keyboard fingers. |
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Tamer |