marliwahoo Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I know the 945 gntlkr board has efi and tpm. I know efi and tpm are not necessary with the patched version of OSX. I was wondering - can it be used ? - has anyone got it working ? Would there be any benifits ? - Just a waste of time ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Running my 945GNT with straight out of the box BIOS setttings, runs great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-85413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 I know the 945 gntlkr board has efi and tpm. I know efi and tpm are not necessary with the patched version of OSX. I was wondering - can it be used ? - has anyone got it working ? Would there be any benifits ? - Just a waste of time ? Forget about TPM, but I think working getting Apple's EFI ROM's running would be great. For those of use with EFI capable boards, it would mean that Target Disk and Boot Selector would work. But for everyone, manually loading EFI means that all Intel Mac drivers like the that for the ATI x1600 would work. For people with a good understanding of EFI, it would not be that hard to try some of this stuff. The other thing is that with Leopard, OS X 10.5, we should expect Apple to pull out the BIOS bootloader, so either we are going to have to write our own or start working more EFI. If I had time, but I do not, I guess this the one thing that I am really interested in and would personally like to work on. It is too bad that Vista will not support let alone require EFI from the get-go, because that would really push the OSx86 project in the right direction. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-85474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 For people with a good understanding of EFI, it would not be that hard to try some of this stuff. The other thing is that with Leopard, OS X 10.5, we should expect Apple to pull out the BIOS bootloader, so either we are going to have to write our own or start working more EFI. If I had time, but I do not, I guess this the one thing that I am really interested in and would personally like to work on. Have you tried the XP hack to get efi on your MB to work ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-85743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 No, I have not messed with EFI, just read a lot about it, and I am not sure what this "XP hack" is? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-85788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 No, I have not messed with EFI, just read a lot about it, and I am not sure what this "XP hack" is? Sorry - I was unclear. On the new intel macbooks and imacs/mini's - the hack that allows booting into xp (and dual booting) It involves using/changing the efi sofware/firmware. I was just wondering if that hack worked with your MB. I obviously don't know much about it. But it does use efi - it does not bypass it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-85932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 no it diesnt... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-86190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted March 31, 2006 Author Share Posted March 31, 2006 I'm not sure how this works. For all I know it may not use efi. - but here are part of the instructions from the XP on a Mac hack. It looks like it uses efi. If it doesn't use efi what does it use to boot ? This is AFTER you install have partitioned (3 partitions - one for xom.efi) and installed OSX - but before you install windows 5. Let the computer reboot into OS X and launch a shell window. - Once the computer reboots, wait for the movie to end and get through the registration process. - Once you get to the desktop go to "Go -> Utilities -> Terminal" 6. Copy the xom.efi bootloader to the hard disk and bless it. - Copy the xom.efi file into your home directory. - In the terminal type: sudo cp xom.efi /System/Library/CoreServices <-- you will have to enter your password here cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo bless --folder . --file xom.efi --setBoot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13401-efi-and-tpm-on-intel-945gntlkr/#findComment-86230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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