The boot loader may not be necessary, but it makes life easy: I hit m to boot mac os or w to boot windows when the machine starts, and it does its thing. I forgot it used non-standard BIOS. Still, if you use a live cd of linux to format a partition correctly, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. Again, google can answer this one way or the other, and I recommend doing thorough research before doing anything else.
On 5/1/12, Brent Harding <br...@hostany.net> wrote: > Boot Camp will go with Windows Natively, no need for the Refit loader, I > don't think, but for whatever reason, I don't think the system will like > that partition being turned into a linux one. I mean, I'm not sure how the > Mac will take to making a Windows partition, booting a Ubuntu Live CD, and > then turning the partition into the linux type. I thought I read that the > problem has to do with the EFI firmware on mac's instead of the normal PC > Bios that it may not boot the linux partition. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Hall" <mehg...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:54 PM > Subject: Re: Question about Bootcamp > > >>I think so. I use the Refit boot loader (I may have that name wrong) >> to boot Mac OS and Windows. I don't see why I couldn't set up another >> partition, though. I'm sure google will have plenty of in-depth >> articles and tutorials about this. Note that you will need sighted >> help to set up some of this, at least I did. >> >> On 5/1/12, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure the short answer to this question will be technically?... >>> yes... The long answer will probably be, yes, and no. >>> >>> Technically speaking, Bootcamp is made for either Windows Vista, or >>> Windows >>> 7. Is there a way however that I could set up a bootcamp partition, then >>> install UBuntu, Vinux, or F123 Linux? preferably either the last two of >>> the >>> three. >>> >>> I know I could do this in VMWare Fusion, ok, fine, that's fair, but >>> that's >>> not exactly what I'm wanting to do for various reasons. For another >>> thing, >>> being I'm an audio engineer, I want to keep my mac partition free of >>> pretty >>> much anything non audio related for my studio workflow. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from GMail website) >> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
