eragon Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 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). Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78545-efi-emulation-on-this-cpu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78545-efi-emulation-on-this-cpu/#findComment-556202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eragon Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 Oh,I thought the EFI was for software updating, so what are the advantages of using EFI emulation then? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78545-efi-emulation-on-this-cpu/#findComment-556219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78545-efi-emulation-on-this-cpu/#findComment-556226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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