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Old 04-22-2010, 05:12 AM
CeleronPopsicle CeleronPopsicle is offline
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Native 10.6.3 64-bit MacBook?

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
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Old 04-22-2010, 05:43 AM
scififan68 scififan68 is offline
 
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Use this guide with pre-patched boot.efi

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Old 04-22-2010, 09:24 AM
RayFlower RayFlower is offline
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This method works pretty much on any macbook with 64bit efi as far as i know, i just did it on my 2007 mac book pro 15".



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