According to my informations, current XP versions (and Vista as well) will NOT be capable of booting from EFI (without bios compatibility module) and this for a simple reason: EFI's made by Intel and Intel had no intention to support 64bit the AMD way. So (current verision) EFI simply doesn't support 64bit (I'm talking x86 here of course).
Stupid isn't it? ;) On 3/18/06, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ... > >---------------------- > >Thibouille > >---------------------- > >*ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ... > > > > > > -- ---------------------- Thibouille ---------------------- *ist-D,Z1,SFXn,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ...
