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EFI Modifications Leaves iMac Unbootable?
jerbare writes "In attempting to run Linux and Windows on the new iMac Core Duo, people experimenting with configuring the EFI Console/Boot loader have found they can no longer boot the machine at all. Dave Schroeder of appleintelfaq.com comments, 'We have already irreversibly lost a couple of iMacs trying to load various EFI modules'. Instructions for breaking the iMac's are presently located at the bottom of the comments."
Instructions for breaking the iMac's are presently located at the bottom of the comments.
Uhh, thanks.
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Unfortunately, he forgot to use a anti-static strap and all the mobos died just past the 90 day warranty perioud.
Does that void the warranty? I bet it does. There you have it. Instructions on getting equipment to hold your desk down for the bargain price of $1300
Unbootable iMacs support an even wider selection of games than do bootable iMacs.
i am confident that a workaround will eventually be developed. if it takes destroying a few macs, so be it...
Isn't this kind of like trying to open the mummy's tomb? Nothing good can come out of it.
This is an early warning!
Wait for virtualization so all of Microsoft's inherent evil can be sandboxed into a self-destructing disk image of darkness and peril.
When you screw this up, do you still get the sad mac?
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One time I swapped sim cards with a friend's mobile phone. Are you saying I'm not a h4x0r?
Long signatures suck.
Those Itanium boxes must be huge!
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
On a related note, my neighbor asked me to perform the normal 'cleanup / devirus / windows update' on his laptop. He owns an HP laptop and has a 'Boot up BIOS password set'. So I didnt have to enter a password each time, the first thing I did was go into the BIOS. I entered the current password and when asked for a new password, I simply hit 'Enter' and 'Enter' to confirm. When I rebooted, it still asked for a password and 'Enter' does not work. The laptop is now completely useless. I have no idea how it will be fixed. From some internet searches, supposedely I can provide HP with a magic 'system hash code' and they can tell me a password, but I have no clue if I can get through to the right person, what happens if it is outside of warranty, etc.
with research like this they could be onto a MAJOR Windows security breakthrough...
That ain't funny. I'd hate to have to furnish my neighbor with a replacement laptop.
Because the nature of the effort was to boot XP, they are no longer booting Windows instead of no longer booting OS X.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I have a friend who acquired the nickname "sparky" after trying a similar method of Bios resolution back in the day. Good times.
In this circumstance, the Boot chime is replaced with a special "Steve Jobs snickers" sound, and the ring of yet another cash register at an Apple store...
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h4x0r yes.
hacker no.
And that makes all the difference.
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Until and unless Apple publishes a spec for how to modify the EFI, this is in the "you broke it, tough shit" category.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I got tired of mucking around with all the electronic gobbldeygook connected to EFI, so I just tore all that shit out and bolted on a good old-fashioned Holley 4bbl carburetor...
Next step is a hood scoop and a bigger hard drive...