Windows 10: Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine

Discus and support Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I dualboot OSX and Windows and use rEFInd as a bootloader. It is excellent and far superior to grub or clover or whatever in my opinion. You don't need... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by GarrukApex, May 22, 2016.

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  1. LX07
    lx07 Win User

    Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine


    I dualboot OSX and Windows and use rEFInd as a bootloader. It is excellent and far superior to grub or clover or whatever in my opinion. You don't need to do anything with it except install it - it will pretty much find anything bootable. It will also let you boot from any SD card or USB you may decide to attach with no extra configuration required.

    I did triple boot with Linux but gave up as it was kind of pointless. I only use OSX if I'm travelling as the battery lasts longer due to Apple providing rather pitiful driver support for Windows.

    If you want to run OSX in a VM then (apart from I can't imagine why would want to) you'll find VMWare is far easier than VirtualBox. Hyper-V is really a non-starter.

    Even if you are running on Apple hardware which I am (EULA says you can only run OSX on Apple hardware) you will still need to hack it as neither will work otherwise. VirtualBox you need to change an XML file, VMWare you need a patch. We don't discuss details of this sort of thing here though.
     
    lx07, Jun 3, 2016
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  2. BADROBOT
    badrobot Win User

    Here's a screenshoot of the Boot option windows using the USB bootloader I was talking about. I have 4 OSes in this machine (on separate physical drives)--- Windows 10, Windows 7, OSX Mavericks and TAILS Linux on USB. I installed the OSX just for the fun of it. I am not using it at all. But it's installed on a separate 80GB hdd so I can boot it up anytime just for testing, etc.


    Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine [​IMG]



    Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine [​IMG]
     
    badrobot, Jun 3, 2016
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  3. LX07
    lx07 Win User
    Nothing wrong with that but Mavericks is a little outadated. I mean if you like it OK but, um, perhaps you would like to try something more recent. It will not be any better (I run El-Cap) but I don't think I'd come on here and boast about installing Snow Leopard for example.

    TAILS is a good thing - with you on that.
     
    lx07, Jun 3, 2016
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  4. BADROBOT
    badrobot Win User

    Win10, Hackintosh & Linux boot on windows machine

    Yeah I know Mavericks is very old. I installed it long time ago just to test it. And since I am not really using it, I did not bother upgrading it. I just fired it up again this morning to check and grab some screenshots. I have no practical use for OSX. No reason to upgrade.
     
    badrobot, Apr 4, 2018
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