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Boot Camp does Linux

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Apr 19, 20061 min

The open-source project OnMac, which first claimed the ability to boot OS X and Windows in the same machine, has now added Linux to the Boot Camp camp, reports say.

Dubbed Triple Boot, the tweak for Macs on Intel hardware running Boot Camp is reportedly not for the technically faint-of-heart, because it “chainloads” Linux from an already-installed copy of Windows XP using the LILO bootloader.

People must first boot the Mac into Windows XP, before LILO allows them to choose to boot Linux.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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