PC-EFI Install To External Drive

[333mhz]

I'm using a Mac and I've plugged in an external drive to prepare it. I have a retail CD.

 

(http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86167&st=0)

Step 2 � Installing PC-EFI and making active (bootable)

 

 

1. Open Terminal

2. Type the following commands (think here, remember to change the variables which are underlined) :

 

sudo �s (Enter)

 

cd /Volumes/

MACOS

/Users/

xxx

/Desktop/EFI/pc_efi_v80 (Enter)

 

./startupfiletool /dev/r

disk0s2

./boot_v8 (Enter)

 

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/r

disk0s2

bs=512 count=1 (Enter)

 

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/

disk0

bs=400 count=1 (Enter)

 

I was told to run this in terminal with Kalyway but I am not interested in downloading or using that.

 

Does this code affect the computer it is written to? Or does it apply it to the disk specified. I do not understand enough about the commands to know whether the computer running terminal is just changing its boot loader to the specified disk, or whether the disk (rdisk0s2 in this case) is being written to.

 

Thanks.

[333mhz]

Nevermind, logically it must have been to the external hard drive. I went ahead and did it and it worked.