[Discussion] [MAC] ESC 2.0 Install

[Thomas Clayton]

Don,

As far as I can judge, your problems are FAR worse than that. (Before I move on, LVM _will_ (ought to) make a MESS of your drive. So, DON'T try it!) 

The hardware is NOT IBM PC-PC compatible! So, it should NOT "go" at all!
IF you try / use a "Virtual" means, believe it or not, eCS _should_ be workable (somehow, I think). Directly running on the _Mac_ design Hw, however, is a no-go.

("Open Firmware" (in PPC Macs) had already "left" the PC BIOS behind. Now there is an ~EFM~ (on 'Intel Macs') and eCS doesn't know ANYTHING about how to communicate with it.)

Sincerely though, possibly incorrectly, 

Thomas Clayton

P.S.: AFAIK, Apple Computer, Inc. didn't go "far enough" to 'correct' 'design flaws' in the 'PC' "architecture". Even if they had, it wouldn't have mattered since they wouldn't - couldn't - have corrected the fundamental problem: the bad design withIN the Intel (and AMD) micro-Processors. I and, I _think_, 'our' Bill N. agree on this.
T.C.

--- On Thu, 6/3/10, D Burch <theunk at telus.net> wrote:

> From: D Burch <theunk at telus.net>
> Subject: [Discussion] [MAC] ESC 2.0 Install
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:12 PM
> I have space on my Mac Mini HD to
> install ECS2.0 GA. and run the machine dual boot for a bit.
> Has anyone tried this?
> If not, would anyone be able to speculate on the chances
> that  LVM is going to raise hell with my OS X
> partition?
> 
> 
> Don