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thorazine74
05-31-2009, 11:06 AM
Boot Think!
Looks good close to Boot Camp and its reported to be able to boot anything including XP on a separate drive.
Wish I would knew how to read chinese...

Thread on InsanelyMac: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168500
Original chinese forum: http://www.apple163.com/forum-18-1.html
Boot Think thread translated with Google: link (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.es%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26sour ce%3Dweb%26ct%3Dres%26cd%3D3%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252 F%252Fwww.apple163.com%252Fforum-18-1.html%26ei%3DEUwiSvrHD5TKjAeWlqTIBg%26usg%3DAFQjC NEQd35SU-vk6jJUSr9psx1VDeewWA%26sig2%3DuP74sl7EnY_gk_wuK7Wg lg&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0=)

Any chinese speaking forum member can enlighten us?
Anyone brave enough to try it?

Voyn1x
06-01-2009, 01:58 PM
I tried it briefly last night by installing it on a usb stick and copying over kexts from my EFI partion. It seems to support dsdt, haven't tested with EFI strings or smbios.plist as yet.

Aesthetically it's much closer to the real Mac bootloader, even has the same sliding transition when switching between drives. It also shares the keyboard like holding down C to boot a cd.

Going to have a longer play tonight - looks very promising (Y)