[geeks] "Lord SJobs... ARISE" ... Apple has moved to the Dark Side

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sun Jan 15 16:28:23 CST 2006


Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
>>From what I see, they don't even use it much themselves.
>>
>>Maybe if they used it more often, it would get more attention.
>>
>>In short: I don't see them as trying very hard.
> 
> 
> You see, they need the motherboard manufacturers to support EFI... oh,
> but will they do it without Windows support?  And why should Windows on
> x86 or x86-64 support EFI if no motherboards do?  Chicken and the egg.

Why not an EFI based chain loader.  If an old boot sector is detected, 
chain load the OS.



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