On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 14:44:45 Tom H wrote: >> >> [1] Apple's EFI firmware can read hfsplus and it boots (IIRC since OS >> X 10.10) from a kernel on the Apple_Boot partition (disk0s3). > > Yes, Apple's firmware reads the blessed hfs+ partition and fishes out > its bootx64.efi file kernel image, but I thought this was from the > second partition where the OS is installed. I'll have a look tomorrow > when I boot it up.
AFAIK, since the advent of defaulting to CoreStorage (OS X 10.10? - OS X's equivalent of LVM) and full-disk encryption (OS X 10.10?), bootx64.efi/boot.efi cannot be loaded from disk0s2.
