zonker Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 What is the difference between the two. I was looking at the retail install tutorial and it said you would be able to boot with PC_EFI8 instead of Darwin. What's the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coadey Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 OS X comes with its own Darwin bootloader, which can only be used on EFI hardware. Since off-the-shelf PC hardware uses a BIOS, not EFI, you need an EFI emulator in your bootloader. That's what PC_EFI does, and is always required as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Strictly literary both are darwin bootloaders. Darwin boots the darwin kernel (aka OS X' kernel). For OSX86 (hackintoshes) there are two versions, one without (usually just called darwin bootloader) the modifications that passes some information to the kernel the apples efi usually would have set and one with (there are many versions but most popular and with most features is the so called PC_EFI8 from netkas). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonker Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 What is in the Kalway install? Is it PC_EFIv8 after the Kalway combo update? How do I know what I have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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