On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > With BIOS limiting the size of the disk to 2.19TB this is a problem. And also > Apple's CSM BIOS implementation is incomplete (not all information needed for > supporting OS's is there, but would be in EFI if Apple were using standard > UEFI instead of effectively a proprietary EFI implementation). So anyway, > it's a problem for dual booting. And there doesn't seem to be a great reason > why Apple is still not using UEFI other than "Apple EFI" is working OK for > them and just aren't highly incentivized to making their hardware fully > standard so it can boot any OS.
Another point is that the CSM BIOS Apple is using does not appear to support USB booting, whereas their EFI does. So it's not possible for Mac OS hardware to be used with "Linux on a stick". And supposedly Windows 8 is going to be UEFI only, dropping BIOS. Chris Murphy_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
