Originally Posted by Simon

to me its a waste of time until intel let people unlock the EFI firmware already on their intel boards. Until then running it under a bios environment defeats the purpose of EFI since its supposed to be a bios replacement... not that im knocking you guys though!! you have done an awesome job to get to this stage

If we can run it from USB and from CD, there will be no reason not to run it from a
128MB mini partition on the HDD. That makes it not that different from an average
bootloader and it may someday could be also integrated in a DVD setup process.

btw. awesome job! I am glad to see that it worked for two reasons. First because of the
possibilities, and second because no one believed me on insanelymac 12 month ago,
when I did a quick research and said it would be possible to run EFI on BIOS machines
without an extra chip hehe

Sony likes to make things difficult and slapped my system with a proprietary BIOS that will practically self-destruct if touched. I know some BIOS can have an extra EFI layer placed ontop, but I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to get that with my system.

I have two HDs: one with soley OS X and no other partitions, and one with soley Vista and no other partitions.

So going the route of a mini-partition: I need to find a way to create additional partitions on an HFS+ drive without formatting data first. Currently a drive with Vista is set to master, so I guess I'll have to set the newly-paritioned Mac drive as the master through my BIOS.

Basically, my ideal use for the new hacked EFI would be to have EFI load from a sub-partition on my Mac drive, and from there boot into either OS X or my existing Vista installation.

But again I'm not sure if boot camp is even a possibility. Even if it is, I might have to format my drive and create a new Vista installation from the Boot Camp app (although I'm sure there's a way to make it use existing installations of Vista.)

Blah, I know I'm probably getting way ahead of myself on this.

playing with efi and leo gabe me some usefull info, but...i'll stay it private till 15 october

Great news, netkas!
The least everyone knows, the better.

Originally Posted by netkas

playing with efi and leo gabe me some usefull info, but...i'll stay it private till 15 october

hahahahaha

I already got Leo except EFI.
netkas, just provide me modified mach_kernel for EFI,,,^ ^
Leo is really amazing in hackintosh.....^ ^

Did some research on my own.
It seems this might not get so far very soon.
Almost the entire Mac hardware is brought up by EFI and it's not detected by EFI, no matter if you load the driver or not.
Even further, loading the entire apple firmware did nothing more.

I'm pretty sure EFI doesn't play a huge role in the Mac OS (yet.) The whole reason why 10.4.4 was hacked so quickly was due to that fact. If the whole system relied on it, we wouldn't be where we are now. Sure there's encoding of some key apps, but that proved easy enough to handle (and on-the-fly!) when r2d2 first came along.

Hi guys,

I have try boot with KINGSTON TDI/2BG and only have his msg:

BootStart!
BootError!

I followed all the instructions in .TXT, my mobo (D865PERL) boot fine with USB devices,

I thank to all and any aid!

thank! and sory my bad english...

PS. NetKas. if you still need radeon.efi, PM I you have one that I caught in
insanely, perhaps you help, or tell me if is possible upload here...

from me and guedesjr

http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?i...sc00090td7.jpg

what happened?

greetz all