No support for EFI booting
Bad news for Apple-lovers today; Microsoft revealed that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista. This will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X (Intel Macs only support booting via EFI). Microsoft’s development manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors. Longhorn Server might be the first version of Windows that will support EFI (via apcmag.com).
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3 opinions for No support for EFI booting
Minid.net » Blog Archive » Boot Camp: Windows en Mac de la mano de Apple
Apr 6, 2006 at 9:08 am
[…] El Mac utiliza un sistema de Firmware desarrollado por Intel, llamado EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) para cargar el sistema operativo Mac OS X u otro, que además de moderno es flexible. Esto le permite realizar cosas que otros sistemas operativos no pueden. Según lo que leemos en varios sitios de tecnología Windows Vista no incorporará soporte EFI, ni querrá, aunque algunos crea que esto parezca un negocio. […]
luc
Apr 24, 2007 at 4:08 pm
EFI is fully supported in Windows Vista 64-bit
MACMiniDude
Apr 25, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Sure, no efi support. The intel macs can still boot from a windows install cd and install vista. I know cuz I am running vista natively on my mac mini. I completely erased the hard drive and removed osx just to find out if I could boot to windows directly. And guess what, I could! There are a few tricks I had to do to get this to work. Also to get rid of the file folder with question mark icon during boot. I have figured out how to get that off as well as the apple startup sound. Now I am running vista on my mac mini for about 3 weeks now without any problems.
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