4 ways to become a happy "Snower"
1: buy a 27" AiO iMac 2: buy a EFi-X 2.0 module 3: use the knowledge of the OSx86 community 4: use ASUS EFI Firmware - for the first solution you need a lot of money - for the second solution you need less money but a screw driver - for…
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- @Lord of Sith Published 2010-02-11
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1: buy a 27" AiO iMac
2: buy a EFi-X 2.0 module
3: use the knowledge of the OSx86 community
4: use ASUS EFI Firmware
- for the first solution you need a lot of money
- for the second solution you need less money but
a screw driver
- for the third solution you need this community
- for the fourth solution you need?
That`s the question!
Has anybody tested the ASUS P5QE mainboard series with
the ASUS EFI ?
Could it be possible, that you only need a USB- Stick
with the flasher software to change the BIOS- Software
against the EFI- Software?
And of course you have to format the S-ATA HDD as GUID?
And of course you need only a copy of the original OS X
Snow Leopard?
Would be nice to hear something from the community.
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1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches
@Lord of Sith- for the fourth solution you need? That`s the question! [...] Could it be possible, that you only need a USB- Stick with the flasher software to change the BIOS- Software against the EFI- Software? And of course you have to format the S-ATA HDD as GUID? And of course you need only a copy of the original OS X Snow Leopard?
Your PC-Mainboard's EFI Firmware is not compatible with the one used by Intel Macs, and even if you would succeed to modifiy it accordingly (I think it's theoretically possible - but a guru job. , you would still need the SMC device - at least the part that's necessary to enable OS X's binary-decryption (osx book.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotection/).
Résumé: You'll still need at least a Snow Leopard capable EFI-bootloader (Chameleon, PC_EFI, ...) & fakesmc or a decrypter kext, to boot a Retail DVD / system.
There are even How-Tos made for your hardware out there - check google.
Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #5501)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @Lord of Sith | Primary Author | 1 | 2010-02-11 |
| @Imkantus | Contributor | 1 | 2010-02-13 |