Re: Running Xen on mini/i386 ?

[Johan Ihren <johani%johani.org@localhost>]

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> any feedback on using Xen on an Intel Mac Mini ?
> especially on the following points :
> - with a recent OPF, does it boot straight away, without bootcamp ?  
> I read
> that on /i386 but as Xen boots using Grub, there may be differences ?

I'm also very interested in this. In  
<20070311174938.GA19935%panix.com@localhost> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote that

> Again, no.  The latest EFI firmware for the Mini will launch a  
> traditional
> PC BIOS and boot from an MBR partition if it sees no GPT partition  
> table
> on the disk.  But you must have the latest firmware.

This sounds like it ought to be possible to boot via grub from the PC  
BIOS and that way get the Dom0 running as usual. But has anyone  
actually suceeded with this?

Regards,

Johan

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