All this rambling about not being able to boot WinXP on the new is beginning to really get onto my nerves.

I think it might actually be much easier to get other OS’s booting on the box not by relying on EFI but rather making use of OSX. After all, porting kexec from Linux to Darwin shouldn’t be too hard if I see things clearly enough. We can even do that without having the 10.4.4 source code for Intel (only the ppc tree is out, no new Intel specific bits have been released to this date): Device drivers have power management functions that get invoked when the system is put to sleep, shutdown or rebooted.

I am definitely planning to get a new 20″ iMac once I return from California in late February - however, I first want to see one in real life first. The plan is to visit the Apple Store in San Francisco on February 9th - before CodeCon. If nobody has made any progress on EFI till then I shall commence hacking on a kext to make my idea reality. Stay tuned.