[justmetoo]

Hello all,
A while back in the Boot Camp beta days, I noticed that my Mac Pro with 3GB RAM only registered as 2GB RAM under XP with Boot Camp beta, right up to BC 1.4

Has Leopard BC resolved this issue??? Can anyone with a Mac Pro with more than 2GB RAM, running Leopard and XP under BC 2, tell me how much RAM Windows says is there???

AND NO, don't tell me to edit the boot.ini and the 3GB switch, that isn't helpful [read the threads...]

If interested, here are the other threads; I wasn't the only one...
http://forums.macnn.com/104/alternat...l-ram-upgrade/
http://forums.macnn.com/104/alternat...l-ram-upgrade/

[Tomchu]

"Boot Camp" has two parts to it, only one of which are actually needed to run Windows:
a) a BIOS compatibility module in the EFI firmware
b) an OS X application for partitioning your drive

Guess which one is actually required to run Windows. :-P Leopard is just an operating system. It is not a firmware upgrade for your Mac, so whatever problems you had with Windows before will still be present. Wait for a firmware upgrade from Apple for your Mac Pro.

[ghporter]

To be more accurate, your Mac has the appropriate BIOS-emulation in its EFI firmware, and Boot Camp provides an easy partitioning utility plus the appropriate Windows drivers for the Mac hardware.

You can make your Mac run windows by using Disk Utility to create a new partition, then boot from the Windows install disc and use it to format the empty partition then install Windows.

But Tomchu is right, this is more to do with the firmware than anything to do with Boot Camp. Pester Apple to get on it.

[Tomchu]

That's pretty much exactly what I said. :-)