Reply #6: Thanks!

[Swamp Rat]

I got frustrated trying to set up a decent hackintosh using my existing hardware (I have limited skills writing kexts), and therefore decided if I was going to get a new machine a Mac Pro would be the best solution since I do design work and music production in OS X. I need windows for specialized scientific applications that do not work in Linux (no emulators or virtual boxes work for these programs, i.e. ERDAS Imagine). Nevertheless, Linux is my favorite OS, and I really want to make it work on a Mac Pro.

I have borked a few drives over the past year on my PC fooling around with Linux beta and alpha distros, but I expected this. I cannot afford the time to deal with this now, so I need everything to work without borking my OS X and Windows drives.

What if I remove the other hard drives and install Ubuntu on just one drive, or just remove the OS X drive, leaving the Windows drive installed (I can partition this drive for both Windows and Ubuntu, install grub, etc.)? Then re-insert my OS X drive as the primary drive (eventually I will install an SSD as a boot drive, leaving the other as a back-up, and a RAID for two other HDs containing my data). What happens to the EFI/BIOS boot loaders? This is where I lack knowledge though I have searched numerous forums for answers.

Thanks again. :hi:

Btw, I just found this site: http://www.kexts.com