- #How to natively run mac on windows mac os x#
- #How to natively run mac on windows install#
- #How to natively run mac on windows Pc#
- #How to natively run mac on windows windows 8#
is this even possible? Or has Apple done something to block this from even being possible using native EFI?
#How to natively run mac on windows install#
My next step would be to try two things: to install Windows to a SATA drive using an EFI compliant system in order to get a drive that's EFI compliant that boots Windows and shove that in the Xserve to see if it'll boot it and also to install the EFI GRUB loader onto the Windows install flash drive and see if it can coax the Windows loader into running. While they would have a point for new systems, this box is still very serviceable with its dual quad Xeons and 16GB of RAM and SAS drives - and Apple has only dropped support for it due to video card support.
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#How to natively run mac on windows Pc#
Most of the posts around the Internet chastise the poster for even considering this option (" Why would you want to do this! Get a PC server for God's sake!"). It would seem that either I'm missing something, or that somehow this EFI implementation specifically refuses to boot Windows. This does show up in the boot options, but when it's selected, a black screen occurs and no further movement occurs.
#How to natively run mac on windows windows 8#
This should theoretically work since the Windows 8 install image is only about 3GB. Try creating a standard Windows 8 圆4 boot USB device on FAT32. WIM file is larger than 4GB, and while there's ways to do split WIM files (SWM), Microsoft explicitly states you can't install from one of these. The problem is that the 2012 R2 installation.
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This does not work - guessing it's because Apple's EFI can't read NTFS (as most can't). This completely fails - holding down Option does not show the DVD at all in the boot options.Ĭreate a Windows 2012 R2 boot USB device using the NTFS file system. This shows that there's enough EFI here to boot a non-Apple OS.Ĭreate a Windows 2012 R2 boot DVD for installation. The older graphics hardware seems finicky, but it does seem to run. I know that Xserves do not have the BIOS emulation layer that most Macs use for Boot Camp support, but I was wondering if it is possible to use EFI Booting to boot Windows 2012.Ĭreate a LiveUSB Linux device from a recovery distro which boots via EFI. Now I know that running Windows natively on here won't give me that server management on Apple's side, but there's plenty of Windows tools that can do essentially the same thing provided the hardware is detectable under Windows.
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And the issue still stands that I'm running a severely outdated underlying OS that Apple isn't going to issue security updates for. I also would probably lose some performance here. I know that installing into a VM would be an option, but I am not licensed for versions of Fusion old enough to run on Lion, and Virtualbox has been a mixed bag for me. I would like to run Windows 2012 Server R2 natively on this hardware. I have tried the tricks to get later OS X versions to boot on it, and while it works, the latest versions of OS X Server do not support this hardware - for example, most of the remote management features (power/fan/CPU speed/disk health/etc) do not work, as Apple considers this unsupported hardware.
#How to natively run mac on windows mac os x#
This model cannot officially run Mac OS X beyond Lion Server. I was given an old retired Xserve 2008 model.