Comments on: Install Vista on my Intel Mac

By: nik

nik — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:57:30 +0000

On MacBook portable machines try the following combination for CTRL+ALT+DEL;

fn + ctrl + alt(option) + . = ctrl + alt + del
(ie Function key + Alt/Option key + Control key + DecimalPoint key)

Key Remapper should not be necessary.

By: amber

amber — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:33:38 +0000

Does Vista Beta 2 support EFI firmware or not?
I’ve found conflicting information – MS said the beta only would include EFI support, and on some review sites it suggests that EFI support has been removed.
If EFI is there, would bootcamp be unnecessary?

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:03:10 +0000

hrm I went ahead and did a dump of the efi partition before doing this to have a backup (sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 of=efibackup.bin), and then i compressed the dump using bzip2. compressed from 200 megs to

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:33:51 +0000

ah ha, thanks r03

time to delete my never-once-used xp install and give my vista download a try

and dan[2]: it’s not too bad, it won’t make it on my windows box (which only runs utorrent and remote desktop), but I’d definitely make the upgrade if i hadn’t got my MBP

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:30:48 +0000

Why would you want to polute your computer with that crap anyways?

By: R031E5

R031E5 — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:23:23 +0000

This page shows how to restore your EFI partition so you can make firmware updates and delete your Windows partition from bootcamp: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=f6bb81c508892a76a0ec7fc6e28b7bf9&showtopic=19522&pid=137294&st=0&#entry137294

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:03:46 +0000

It is all over the place in beta form

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:35:41 +0000

How does one go about getting their hands on Vista?

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:54:08 +0000

You should probably warn readers that deleting the EFI partition does have consequences, such as the OSX installation problems you mentioned, and also that boot camp will no longer be able to manage the windows partition (shrink/expand).