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<blockquote data-quote="Blackened" data-source="post: 1390633" data-attributes="member: 217540">Hey everyone,I'll be getting a Mac whenever their refreshed, and intend to at least experiment a bit with booting multiple OSs. I'm currently a Linux user, know my way around GRUB and have several distros available to choose from when I boot up (also had Windows for some time, but I just have no need to use it).From my understanding, Boot Camp is just a utility to help a user partition and install Windows without messing things up in the process. It also installs device drivers, and here's my first question: Don't Apple PCs share pretty much all hardware with non-Apple PCs nowadays? Wouldn't Windows run with generic drivers (or maybe just fetch them from the manufacturer's website after installation) on a Mac?What is available for a Mac in terms of bootloaders/managers? I've read about rEFIt and the default Apple boot manager, are those easy enough to set up to boot from a Linux partition, for instance? Maybe from a partition on an external drive?And finally, will virtualization tools such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox allow me to use an existing partition (instead of creating a virtual disk)?Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blackened, post: 1390633, member: 217540"] Hey everyone, I'll be getting a Mac whenever their refreshed, and intend to at least experiment a bit with booting multiple OSs. I'm currently a Linux user, know my way around GRUB and have several distros available to choose from when I boot up (also had Windows for some time, but I just have no need to use it). From my understanding, Boot Camp is just a utility to help a user partition and install Windows without messing things up in the process. It also installs device drivers, and here's my first question: Don't Apple PCs share pretty much all hardware with non-Apple PCs nowadays? Wouldn't Windows run with generic drivers (or maybe just fetch them from the manufacturer's website after installation) on a Mac? What is available for a Mac in terms of bootloaders/managers? I've read about rEFIt and the default Apple boot manager, are those easy enough to set up to boot from a Linux partition, for instance? Maybe from a partition on an external drive? And finally, will virtualization tools such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox allow me to use an existing partition (instead of creating a virtual disk)? Cheers [/QUOTE]

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