> as simple as the old "legacy" PC boot sequence was. Some of the Hackintosh folks know how much this can be false. As soon as you step out of real mode / VESA

> as simple as the old "legacy" PC boot sequence was. Some of the Hackintosh folks know how much this can be false. As soon as you step out of real mode / VESA graphics, all bets are off, those ACPI tables can be a real PITA, and you may have to fix stuff by extracting, editing and recompiling your SSDT/DSDT, at which point you generally wonder how the stock ones worked at all in the first place: missing symbols, broken CPU state tables... (well, deep inside you know, Windows/Linux are doing a hell of a job doing their best at working around all that mess)