Intel Mac tweakers having trouble, kill iMacs in process

An interesting thread has popped up over at the Nakfull Propaganda blog regarding getting Linux or Windoze to boot on the new Intel iMac Core Duo's. Since the new Intel Macs don't have Open Firmware and instead have EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), some enterprising people have been trying to munge around in EFI to get other OSes installed.

So far, no one has managed to get Linux or Winblows to run on the iMac Core Duo, but some people have managed to irreversible kill a few iMacs (and are returning them to Apple without mentioning how they butchered the machines). The entire thread makes for fascinating reading, vacillating between the religious:

"THIS IS A CHALLENGE. WE SHALL NOT REST UNTIL ALL 3 OSs HAVE BEEN INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY ON THE NEW MACS."

and extremely poetic geek-speak:

"And this is with the entire contents of the Vista 5270 32-bit EFI installation DVD copied over to either its own Mac OS Extended partition or a FAT32 partition on a GPT volume."

[via Slashdot]