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The macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, as the boot picker no longer recognizes the Asahi Linux partition. Asahi Linux warns users to avoid the beta and has filed a bug report with Apple.

A detailed guide on installing SmartOS on a datacenter machine without physical access or remote KVM, using VirtualBox to create a template ZPOOL image.

The article explains the Linux kernel boot process on x86_64, from bootloader handoff to user space initialization, using a space colony metaphor to describe the initialization phases.