Why not ask google?
Bob
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Does intel Imac with boot camp support Vista?
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i actually did install vista on my intel imac. but it takes a bit of work, u have to first install XP, then upgrade to Vista. It requires deleting the EFI partition. so...if u get sick of vista (which i did in like..15mins) it takes a bit of work to restore that EFI partition back onto ur mac so ur default boot drive is ur mac hd not ur windows HD.
With Boot Camp, all the work is done for you and there is no need to play with any EFI stuff.
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when your trying to upgrade from XP or installing strait from the boot disk, during the installation it'll ask u to reboot, but unlike windows xp it wun boot into the windows partition, it'll boot into the mac hd. and holding down alt and booting into windows wun work, u'll have to delete the EFI to force the computer to boot from the windows partition and not the mac partition, u can still press down alt to choose which u want, but there is a work involved.
Does this mean that the advertised "Option" key at startup, to choose which OS to start, does not actually work out of the box.
I have looked all over the Boot Camp installation instructions and cannot find anything about removing the EFI .
There is a section about the XP disk rebooting during installation, which is normal, which says this:
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The only tricky part is selecting the C: drive manually. Be sure to get this right, or you could erase your Mac files accidentally.
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Could it be that you may have inadvertently created your own monster?
The Option key scenario works well on the installs I have seen of XP SP2 an the Vista Beta's and there is always the "StartUp Disk Control Panel" .
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