EFI with MBR
I'm dual-booting with XP, so I need to use the MBR partition table. What do I need to do to get EFI v8 playing well with MBR? I tried the startupfiletool, boot0 and boot1 that ship with EFIv8 but I get a b0 error... even after marking the…
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I'm dual-booting with XP, so I need to use the MBR partition table. What do I need to do to get EFI v8 playing well with MBR? I tried the startupfiletool, boot0 and boot1 that ship with EFIv8 but I get a b0 error... even after marking the HFS+ partition active. After reading the readme, I'm not sure that efiv8's boot0/boot1 are even made for MBR.
Anyone know how to get EFIv8 booting from an MBR partition?
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lol…dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s3 bs=512 count=1 dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1 are for GUID...not MBR
~How to install EFI -MBR~
1. install leo
2. boot again the dvd disk utility>right click your leo partition >information>see what disk id has the partition (diskXsX)>unmount your leo partition
3. enter terminal
cd /volumes/your_usb_stick_name/pc_efi_v80
./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsX ./boot_v8that is it
Every time I see this I keep wondering...
What about AppleSMBIOS.kext? I replaced mine with the one from the EFI package.
How come you don't do this?
Should I not be doing this?
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @kourosh | Contributor | 2 | 2008-02-02 → 2008-02-08 |
| @compaqdrew | Primary Author | 1 | 2008-02-02 |
| @DoiX | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-02 |