i can not see the custom button in the mountain lion setup screen! i can see the efi in the disk utility when i type diskutil list in the terminal i will not remove the efi. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher-Mark Gilland To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:14 PM Subject: Re: EFI
First of all, the EFI isn't a partition. Think of the EFI as the equivalent of the bios on a windows based pc. I'm honestly not sure that it can be modified nor why in the first place you'd wanna do that. I know on older Power PC based macs, there was a utility called Open Firmware that would let you issue raw commands to the EFI firmware, but for one thing, there was absolutely no speech output, and for two, it was an extremely! risky thing to do if you didn't know 100% what you were doing and why. Plus, now that macs have gone Intel, I don't think that's possible anymore. The second question of your's let's address: Can you modify the Mountain Lion installation? Can you be a bit more specific please? When you say modify the ML installation, are you saying that you want to reverse engineer it and make it do things it doesn't, or are you more just trying to select the different services/components that get installed. If the ladder, then yes, I think there is a customize button that you can press vo+Space on during the installation then you can check and uncheck whatever items you want installed. Now, obviously, having said that, there of corse are certain components that are dependencies on the OS in a whole, meaning you can't disable them, as without them, the core part of the OS's kernel wouldn't correctly run. If you can be a little bit more specific exactly what you're trying to accomplish, I'll see if I can help you a bit further. If, you're trying to modify the installer as in make it work differently or literally do things it doesn't already do, then I'm sorry to say that not only is that imposible, but is extremely highly illegal and with all do respect, I'd highly doubt anyone would support telling you how to reverse code engineer it. I know I! certainly won't. Even if I did! know how, which I dont, I'd not reveal it. LOL! Anyhow, take care. No hard feelings. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. ----- Original Message ----- From: Hayri Tulumcu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:54 PM Subject: EFI it is possible to remove the EFI partition? and can i make a EFI partition again? and how can i customize the mountain lion installer? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
