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There was also the scenario where the CPU was 64 bit but the EFI was 32 bit. Booting a 32 bit OS was fine, but 64 bit OS' generally came with a 64 bit bootload
by happymellon 3mo ago
There was also the scenario where the CPU was 64 bit but the EFI was 32 bit.
Booting a 32 bit OS was fine, but 64 bit OS' generally came with a 64 bit bootloader, so you had to do a special song and dance to load a 32 bit bootloader with a 64 bit OS.
- dosisking 3mo agoThose cheap 2006 Mac Pros also had 32 bit EFI
- happymellon 3mo agoPolycarbon Macbooks too. I remember creating the special boot disks with 32bit grub.
- CTOSian 3mo agoyes, some tablets (eg Dell Venue), real pita there..
- jambalaya8 3mo agoForgot about this. That was annoying.
- spider-mario 3mo agoMine (Acer Aspire One 756) had an EFI disguised as a BIOS. I only discovered it was EFI after a few years, when I inserted some bootable flash drive, opened the boot menu and saw an EFI entry for the flash drive there. Other than that, it’s as if they were trying to keep the EFI a secret (nothing in the settings hinted at it and I couldn’t get it to boot in EFI mode by default).
- theodric 3mo agoAh yes, my big netbook (sold as the "2006 Apple Mac Pro") was so afflicted