EFI is Intel's response to Sun's OpenBoot, which is what the Apple
PowerPC systems use as the hardware-OS bootstrap. Same basic concept,
but C based instead of Forth based. Interesting.
Hard to believe that XP is still dependent upon BIOS!! That goes back
to the early 1980s.
G
On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
EFI's coming to Windows machines as well, so it was a matter of
figuring out what was different between the Vista betas floating
around and XP on the boot side (Vista will be the first 'EFI-ready'
MS OS, but XP test builds are known to boot on EFI)
-Adam
Thibouille wrote:
For what I read on that subject (sorry if some do not understand
the details):
* From a hardware POV, Mac machines are just PC-like internally.
Nothing different.
* From a software POV (except the OS) the firmware is different. MAC
use EFI without the Bios compatibility add-on which makes XP
unbootable. Well that was a week ago. The trick was to find a way to
create what's needed between EFI and XP (that add-on).
More or less, this is it. Hope some wil understand, it is quite
technical details ...
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