XP_64 on 2012 MacBook Pro

[cc333]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has accomplished this. It is Ivy Bridge-based, so it's iffy, but it should be possible?

Anyway, when trying to boot from the setup CD, it freezes with a blue screen that states that the BIOS isn't ACPI-compatible, and to override and proceed without ACPI support.

Problem is, there doesn't seem to be such an option for XP x64. I could run the 32-bit version, but I'd be stuck with 4 GB of RAM (my MacBook has 16).

And why XP, you may ask. Why not 7 or 8.1? Well, I like XP! And it does 90% of what I want to do with a computer, so I'm happy with it.

Thoughts?

c

[jaclaz]

11 minutes ago, cc333 said:

Thoughts?

 

PAE patch and 32 bit?

It seems like a a 2012 (Mac) ACPI is not compatible with the level XP 64 would understand:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7288953?start=0&tstart=0

jaclaz
 

[Dibya]

May be one day we can have it on mac pro.  Samuka is working hard regarding it.

[cc333]

On 7/14/2017 at 8:15 AM, Dibya said:

May be one day we can have it on mac pro.  Samuka is working hard regarding it.

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but it's mine, so...

I already have XP x64 running on my 2009 Mac Pro (it runs quite well for the most part, except I keep getting random BSoDs related to disk.sys), so it must be possible.

Meanwhile, I gave up trying to get XP x64 to run on my MacBook Pro directly, so I compromised and put in a VM instead. It's not 100% perfect (there's some heavy software I can't run), but it works well enough.

However, I would still like to get it working, if only to say I can.

c