On iPhone, absolutely. On Mac, I’m not sure. I know I can use the disk manager to make a new partition, install whatever OS on it I want — though, my Macs are both ARM64, so I’m quite limited there — and boot to it. I’m not sure if it’s fair to say “the bootloader is unlocked” though. Since it’s Apple’s bootloader. I don’t know if I can change it. Like on Android, when I used to mess with custom firmware ~10 years ago, we’d replace the garbage Android bootloader with TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) and that would give us the option to make backups and to flash custom forks of Android (e.g. CyanogenMod, AOKP, etc.). And some of those bootloaders were locked down pretty tight (like HTC’s) where some were wide open (like Samsung, before Knox was a thing).
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omniman@anarchist.nexus 1 month agoIs bootloader locked on mac or apple products?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Yes. However, it’s not super difficult to get a signed image to meet the requirements. To my knowledge they aren’t actively trying to prevent the installation of other operating systems.
I understand there’s quite a few missing drivers on the latest Macs. It’s possible to run Linux but I don’t think it’s especially user friendly at the moment.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Linux
asahilinux.org
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Don’t they have a bunch of kernel changes that they can’t merge upstream?