PC EFI on a AMD PC
I know this forum is for Leopard AMD but I'm using tiger. I would like to install PC EFI on my system. I have been looking for help with is. but it's hard to get AMD support. I would really appreciated if someone can write a guide for me…
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- @macone Published 2008-02-09
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- Leopard 10.5
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I know this forum is for Leopard AMD but I'm using tiger. I would like to install PC EFI on my system. I have been looking for help with is. but it's hard to get AMD support.
I would really appreciated if someone can write a guide for me explaining how to install PC EFI on my system. I would like to be able to do update from apple especially get my system from 10.4.10 to 10.4.11
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ok I installed PC EFI on 10.4.10 following the wiki gide. after I reboot my system I don't see any changes. system still reports hackintosh. after that I install the modified AppleSMBIOS.kext and reboot my system. when it starts up I get a message AppleSMBIOS.kext ...cant be loaded. something like that. the system goes to a blue screen and its stops their.
maybe I'm doing something wrong I don't know. but I would be really grateful if someone can help me get this working.
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1015 SSE SSE2 SSE3
Memory: 768 MB
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
Seagate ULTRA ATA 120 gb Barracuda for leopard
SATA 250 for a tiger
SATA 250 for Windows XP
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2 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches
You can install EFI on an AMD system same as intel. you just can't use the stock Apple kernel. Still have to use a hacked one.
Fix the permissions on AppleSMBIOS
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBios.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBios.kextSources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #244)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @macone | Primary Author | 2 | 2008-02-09 → 2008-02-16 |
| @zuz242 | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-09 |
| @timdsmith72 | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-10 |
| @zephyroth | Contributor | 1 | 2008-02-16 |