Dual Boot Intel on Mac Contest pot surpasses $10K

A informal contest to achieve a dual boot Intel Mac today exceeded $10000 USD in donated community prize money. Blogger Colin Nederkoorn started the contest on a whim just over a week ago on January 23, and contributions accumulated to over $2500 in one week. After the contest was “Slashdotted”, the total pot now stands in excess of $10K. The contest ends March 23, and if no winner is apparent by that deadline, the prize money will be charitably donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The rules are as follows:
1. Instructions must boot Windows XP (at least), not Vista or any other version of Windows.
2. Windows must be able to coexist with Mac OS X and each system may not interfere with the operation of the other (basically a traditional dual boot system where one OS is running at a time)
3. Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP (hint: GRUB)
4. The first person to post complete instructions, including pictures of the boot process to The Forum will be the winner. Instructions will be peer reviewed once they are received and once the solution is guaranteed working, the prize money will be transferred via paypal
5. You give this website the rights to post your solution
6. If it is determined impossible to boot Windows on the Mac by March 23, 2006, all donations will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. If you donated prior to 2006/01/23 2:10pm CST, and you do not wish to donate to charity, I will return your money minus the paypal fee
7. You cannot use virtualization software such as Xen or VMWare

Any interested users may donate any amount $5 and above toward the prize amount through PayPal, and in return for donations over $10, a URL of the donor’s choice will be linked on the contest site. Nederkoorn has set up a new domain for the contest at windowsxp.onmac.net, with a new contest blog and forum. Open accounting of all donations are also available as an Excel file on the site.

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