Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jan 2006 19:00 UTC, submitted by MacWereld
"I figured out a way to get into the EFI menu on the new Intel iMac. I was attempting to install Vista, which did not work. As I discovered from poking around in the EFI there is no support for UDF or El Torito volumes. It seems only GPT and APM is supported. Writing a driver for EFI to support UDF should be easy enough for someone who knows how, one might even exist already. I'm going to give step-by-step instructions for getting in to the EFI so that some enterprising people will get to work on installing Windows."
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2005-07-06
With EFI is this - with OpenBoot, you are required to write stuff in the Forth programming language, where as with EFI you can use plain old C.
As for a generic interface - a perfect world, everyone would use EFI, all hardware companies would provide the necessary EFI driver, and all operating system uses the generic interface - the sad thing, unfortunately, it isn't the case.