On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 Feb 2014 01:22:24 eroen wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:39:51 -0800, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter: > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ > > > > > > and it seems to me like an oxymoron. If that phrase makes > > > logical sense then my definitions of 'BIOS' and 'EFI' need > > > the latest updates :) > > > > > > Until now I thought that EFI is a recent replacement for > > > "BIOS" based machines. > > > > > > Can anyone clarify the linguistics involved here? > > > > The scope of UEFI is somewhat greater than that of traditional BIOSes. > > Both do various hardware initialization and such, but UEFIs (can) have > > a number of additional features, including more flexibility in what it > > can launch from where (eg. network booting without iPXE) and even an > > interactive shell. See [1] for a less organized list of features. > > > > I'm unfamiliar with this project in specific, but I'm going by the line > > > > This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a > > replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader http://www.tianocore.org. > > > > I have a box running Duet, which is an UEFI implementation that can be > > launched by (eg.) the extlinux boot loader on a legacy BIOS system. > > Once Duet is launched, the system is mostly indistinguishable from a > > native UEFI system that has booted into it's UEFI firmware. > > > > From here, Duet can let the user go through menus to select an EFI > > executable to launch (a EFI-stub enabled kernel or some sort of boot > > loader), or it can automatically launch something based on existing > > configuration. > > > > 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Features > > I guess this can be seen as a BIOS chainloaded UEFI? > > BTW, has anyone tried hackintosh in a VM? I am thinking of using > AppleMac's > Mail program, when I can no longer run the legacy kmail application. A bit > drastic to have to load a whole VM just for mail, but I can't find another > client that suits. > > -- > Regards, > Mick > Last I did much research on it, the only semi-working implementation of OSX in a VM required VMware Workstation as the host, involved booting a hacked together boot cd image, and crashed and burned hard on updates. It was interesting, but not very viable for anything that's of any measurable importance at all. I tested it out for a couple days to compile a little pice of code a mac user friend wanted to play with... it was dog slow on my system otherwise (but that was likely my system's fault, old E8400 @4GB ram at the time + Win7) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
