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EFI Emulation on this CPU


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I have a Pentium 4 HT 3.2 GHZ (SSE3) and I would like to know if EFI works on this. I saw a post somewhere saying you can run EFI, but no Vanilla Kernel (does this mean I still would be able to use apple updates without any patches).

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Yes, EFI emulation ("pc-efi") will work fine. No, you can't use the vanilla (stock, Apple) kernel. No you can not use Software Update without patching.

 

It does make it possible to use a GUID partition scheme if you want.

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Oh,I thought the EFI was for software updating, so what are the advantages of using EFI emulation then?

If you have a Core 2 (and only Core 2) CPU, you can run the original vanilla kernel and use software update. It will not work on Pentium 4, Pentium D, Core Duo, or Athlon64 (and what's the newest failure? Phenom, or some {censored} like that?), even though all those support SSE3.

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