Kuebeker Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi, Where are the bootloaders, EFI V8 or Chameleon, installed? I noticed that EFI V8 uses DD to copy files but I can not figure where. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132310-where-is-the-efi-bootloader-installed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuebeker Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 This EFI stuff is driving me insane! I found a 200mb EFI System Partition on each hd. I mounted them using mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 The HD that has EFI V8 installed has a file called Firmware.scrap located at /EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS/Firmware.scap The 2nd HD with Chameleon has the EFI Partition but is empty. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132310-where-is-the-efi-bootloader-installed/#findComment-938252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 The so-called "EFI Bootloaders" have nothing to do wuth EFI and thus don't use the EFI System Partition. the bootloader is written to the bootsector like any other, although some variants (chameleon comes to mind) leave the last stage as a visible file in the root filesystem (most often called "boot") Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132310-where-is-the-efi-bootloader-installed/#findComment-938277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuebeker Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ok thanks for the info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132310-where-is-the-efi-bootloader-installed/#findComment-940830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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