nfsfan Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 m not comfortable to ask these questions at this time, but have been searching the forums for an hour now and couldnt find threads that actually tell me what they are. 1.efi : extensible firmware integration : with emulating this our intel macs behave like real macs and we can update like them. but what r mbr and guid? acc to wikipedia : 1.mbr : master boot record...using bios how our pc's store them 2.guid : new mothod replacing pc-bios so if we install guid,are we changing our hardware properties?[i dont think that,but m talking w.r.t definition] and what are these in context with os x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 NO, you won't be changing anything on your hardware (ie. properties). You changing the way the partitions are laid-out and the way the data is written to the HD. MBR partition map is used on normal PCs and is very old. GUID (GPT) is used on real macs and is much newer. It's part of the EFI specifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfsfan Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 so what is the difference when i install leopard this week(previously i had done 10..4.10 but no efi there).also i plan to dual/triple boot with vista/ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 http://netkas.org/?page_id=21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfsfan Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 thanx for the info. but still did not make me clear about affects of guid vs mbr.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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