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one thing confuses me about this hackintosh phenomenon. macs always made a pretty big deal out of their pram, which is where they store which partition to boot
by allenbrunson 17y ago
one thing confuses me about this hackintosh phenomenon. macs always made a pretty big deal out of their pram, which is where they store which partition to boot off of and a lot of other stuff. how is that emulated on garden-variety pcs?
- joshu 17y agoThat stuff dissapeared with PowerPC. They're EFI-based now.
- epall 17y agoBut PC laptops still don't have EFI I thought.
- joshu 17y agoThe hackintosh mods add EFI emulation, I think.
- hexley 17y agoAlthough they're EFI based, this has nothing to do with the PRAM of older PPC macs, which has become less and less used since the advent of OS X which stores 99% of it's settings in .plist files on the HD. the PRAM used to store all sorts of information but now I think it's probably only used to store the startup disk preference and other minor things.