People, I installed Mac OS Leopard in my old computer. Installed perfect, but I want to use pxelinux to choose boot to Mac OS. I have options to linux and windows in pxelinux options. How can I use to boot Mac OS Leopard? Samuel Rios Carvalho
Samuel Rios Carvalho wrote:> > People, > > I installed Mac OS Leopard in my old computer. Installed perfect, but > I want > to use pxelinux to choose boot to Mac OS. I have options to linux and > windows in pxelinux options. How can I use to boot Mac OS Leopard? >Can you even boot this computer to PXELINUX at all? My understanding is that Mac OS only runs on Apple Macintoshes, which use their own BSDP (Boot Server Discovery Protocol) for net-booting, rather than PXE. Having said that, if you are booting the Mac with gPXE (for instance) and are then booting PXELINUX from there, I think you might enjoy having a look at the chain.c32 COMBOOT32 module. syslinux/com32/modules/chain.c might be worth a look. It allows you to chain an HDD or partition... It would be good to know if you encounter success with this. - Shao Miller
On 3/16/2010 10:50 AM, Samuel Rios Carvalho wrote:> People, > > I installed Mac OS Leopard in my old computer. Installed perfect, but I want > to use pxelinux to choose boot to Mac OS. I have options to linux and > windows in pxelinux options. How can I use to boot Mac OS Leopard? > > Samuel Rios CarvalhoAre you talking about a hack-in-tosh? or an old Mac? If a Mac, PPC or Intel? Are you trying to use PXELINUX to manage your boot? or are you talking about netbooting / deployment of OS X? If you are talking about just changing boot order on a hack-in-tosh, you can use chain.c32 to select the right partition/hdd. If you are talking about netbooting/deployment, on a Mac PXELINUX is not going to work (in my experience), Although there was a netboot method available that didn't require an Apple Server. It consisted of some third party files, and a dhcp clause. I never did make it work with PPC, but never tried that hard either. If we are talking about a newer Mac, I believe PXELINUX needs to grow EFI support before it will work. HTH -Andrew