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Re: [LUG] OEM strategy from Canonical

 

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Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:21:14 +0100
> Paul Sutton wrote:
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>>> The part that puzzles me is "[..]it comes with tools for Windows
>>> which assist in the management of the dual-boot experience.".
>>> There's a screenshot in the post that shows the shutdown applet
>>> with a "Start Windows..." option, available when dual boot it's
>>> detected.
>>>
>> That sounds a good feature to me,  I guess that could be modified, to
>> start OSX or start some other operating system.  Or perhaps even to
>> start a different distribution.
> 
> I have a shrewd idea how this would be achieved using the GRUB
> bootloader, but what bootloader is used when multibooting a Mac
> system?  Is it still GRUB or is something else used?
> 
> Grant.
> 
Not sure,  but if a way to make this work,  it would be useful,  problem
is we are booting between a propriatary and open source system,

Paul

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