CeleronPopsicle
04-22-2010, 05:12 AM
I know this may be the wrong area to post this since my computer is a genuine Apple MacBook, but I figured this forum would be the most helpful due to the hacking nature of the project.
I have an Early 2009 MacBook. It's the last of the non-unibody, white MacBooks, but has the NVidia 9400M.
Apple has locked out using 64-bit mode on base model MacBooks even though all the hardware is perfectly 64-bit capable. My understanding is that the 32-bit EFi will not allow the unit to boot to 64-bit.
Anyone know of a way to bypass/hack this. Surely OS X x86 tactics can be employed to make this happen. Could one use a 3rd party bootloader or EFI emulator to get the system to be seen as Pro?
MacBook (Early 2009)
2 GHz Core 2 Duo
3MB cache
4GB G-Skill RAM DDR2 - PC5300
320GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
NVidia 9400m 256MB graphics
I have an Early 2009 MacBook. It's the last of the non-unibody, white MacBooks, but has the NVidia 9400M.
Apple has locked out using 64-bit mode on base model MacBooks even though all the hardware is perfectly 64-bit capable. My understanding is that the 32-bit EFi will not allow the unit to boot to 64-bit.
Anyone know of a way to bypass/hack this. Surely OS X x86 tactics can be employed to make this happen. Could one use a 3rd party bootloader or EFI emulator to get the system to be seen as Pro?
MacBook (Early 2009)
2 GHz Core 2 Duo
3MB cache
4GB G-Skill RAM DDR2 - PC5300
320GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
NVidia 9400m 256MB graphics