Soündless Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 i fell asleep reading EFI related stuff, and i had a "vision" of sorts. it is... some kind of boot loader that emulates efi and would let us boot straight into mac with regular mac os dvds on our hackintoshes. someone tell me this isn't possible, i've been obsessing about this since i woke up (about 5 hours ago) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 that is quite possible, although it would have to be first boot, it would work sort of like the vista oem royalty boot disk emulating the slip 2.0 signature in bios. now all we have to do is figure out how to do it! but yes, it is a VERY good idea and is quite possible =D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-391885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 this dream was much more productive then my "skin tight snake leather pants" one. my new goal this summer is to do that! i am going to play around with the efi partition on my mbp, and since i can't mount it in mac, i will be in linux land for a while Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-391898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 this dream was much more productive then my "skin tight snake leather pants" one.I don't even want to know. my new goal this summer is to do that! i am going to play around with the efi partition on my mbp, and since i can't mount it in mac, i will be in linux land for a whileThat's something I should have tried a LONG time ago... considering all the time I've spent in SuSE on this computer over the last week. Anyway, what kind of stuff is on that partition? I know it's supposedly formatted as FAT32, but I don't know anything more about it and I'm too lazy to reboot into SuSE right now. EDIT: Stupid line breaks hate me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-391917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 in ubuntu it just shows up blank. i downloaded this stuff to see what i can learn. i am going to try and get to know the IT guys @ university of chicago, from what i've heard, they know alot about efi and have nothing to do with their time edit: according to here, the efi partition is unused edit 2: the macEFIx86 thing in the x-labs could shed some light Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-391929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Eh, so much for that. Seems like we'll have to find a way to hack the EFI system out of the firmware on our Macs. Which is what they've been trying to do for however long in the macEFIx86 project. IDK, maybe you should get involved there. That is, if you can put up with Kiko... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-391956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeSuKuN Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I've had also this dream,you can actually run EFI based kernels on pc's (the key is on other forrum) so we just need some kind of watchdog that injects patches on the fly to the kernel, this way we will only need drivers and could use apple's updates and original DVD's. Add to this some package management system for driver/hackingtosh specific software (like linux package distributions systems) and you got the perfect hack. P.S. Ah! and also rEFIt! Greatest bootloader for teh mac! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-392059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 hmm, this seems suprisingly similar to pc_efi... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-506587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 ATTENTION SOUNDLESS: YOUR DREAM HAS COME TRUE< CONGRATULATIONS! Now thanks to PCEFI you can run native kernels, on a hackintosh, using EFI! I saw this, and I was like, Wow! because only a month after, PCEFI was released, freaky huh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54807-my-dream-induced-efi-idea/#findComment-534472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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