Roger- Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 2:12:54 PM, you wrote:
> Andre, I think doomsday has already come. At work, we configure laptops > for our users. We often use opensource Live CDs to boot the machine for > whatever reasons like looking at the partition table, or just to see how > the latest Ubuntu or Debian or RedHat distro performs on the latest and > greatest Apple has to offer. Well, we tried booting from every Linux we > had a Live CD or DVD of, and NONE OF THEM would boot on the newest i7 > MacBook Pro. We tried 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and could never go past > an error that seemed to point to the hard-drive controller. I don't have > the exact error at this moment, but it sure seemed like some kind of > secure-boot mechanism was behind it all. So, we installed Windows in a VM > and gave it to the user. Sounds like UEFI. Apple has shipped logic boards with UEFI for years, but it's never been enabled before. http://boingboing.net/2011/09/21/anti-malware-hardware-has-the-potential-to-make-it-illegal-and-impossible-to-choose-to-run-linux.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/making-uefi-secure-boot-work-with-open-platforms -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
