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Subject:    Re: GRUB 2 in Ubuntu 9.10
From:       King InuYasha <ngompa13 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-10 22:03:56
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:13 -0500, King InuYasha wrote:
>
> > EFI support is not the same as fake-EFI.
>
> Your mail client has atrociously bad indentation.  Fix it.
>
> It appears from light googling that what you mean by "fake EFI" is "a
> boot loader that fakes enough of EFI to be able to boot OSX on a
> non-Apple machine".  I wasn't aware it was a goal of the Fedora project
> to enable you to boot some _other_ OS on arbitrary hardware, when the
> license of that other OS expressly forbids you from doing so.
>
> - ajax
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Well, not necessarily Mac OS X itself. Wouldn't the Darwin kernel require it
anyway? I have been installing Chameleon so I could boot the regular Darwin
kernel and userland because I was told I needed a form of EFI to use the
Darwin kernel.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Adam Jackson <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ajax@redhat.com">ajax@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, \
2009-06-10 at 15:13 -0500, King InuYasha wrote:<br> <br>
&gt; EFI support is not the same as fake-EFI.<br>
<br>
</div>Your mail client has atrociously bad indentation.  Fix it.<br>
<br>
It appears from light googling that what you mean by &quot;fake EFI&quot; is \
&quot;a<br> boot loader that fakes enough of EFI to be able to boot OSX on a<br>
non-Apple machine&quot;.  I wasn&#39;t aware it was a goal of the Fedora project<br>
to enable you to boot some _other_ OS on arbitrary hardware, when the<br>
license of that other OS expressly forbids you from doing so.<br>
<br>
- ajax<br>
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<a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a><br>
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target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Well, \
not necessarily Mac OS X itself. Wouldn&#39;t the Darwin kernel require it anyway? I \
have been installing Chameleon so I could boot the regular Darwin kernel and userland \
because I was told I needed a form of EFI to use the Darwin kernel.<br>



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