Back from the dead wondering if theres any updates or progress? Or am I still merely wishful thinking?

 

One last kick at the dream? OSX tuning..... bueller?

 

Still a dream. If you want to use your Mac hardware why not look at BootCamp to run the required Windows OS?

 

Yes, install Boot Camp under OSX, this allows you to create a partition on the HDD and install natively bootable WinXP, this is what I do.


I have previously run EFILive software in WinXP running in the VMware Fusion virtual machine running on OSX, it seems to run ok, but that's too many software layers where something could go wrong... and Fusion seems to run slow even if you have 4GB DRAM... I prefer Boot Camped WinXP.

 

can you do bootcamp on a machine with already or is it basically a reformat of the drive?

 

Boot Camp creates a partition, it does not reformat the HDD...

However, if you've been using your Mac for a while there might be some un-moveable files right where Windows partition is going to be, Boot Camp complains about this, you will have to backup the OSX partition, erase it, reformat (with extended/journalling enabled), and restore from back up... then BC can proceed... make the Windows partition bigger than you think, and then go bigger still!!

Seems to work better with OSX 10.5.