[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

[Benjamin Flanders]

Is it on the first sector of the harddrive?  Is it in non-volatile
memory?  I'm confused ...  Well I'll do some research when I get home.
 Thanks for the info.



On 3/30/07, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:07 -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> > How can Intel Macs not have a bios?  Something has to initialize everything.
>
> Its called EFI or Extensible Firmware Interface.
>
> As Intel puts it: It's the FEWCHOOR!
>
> Apple has used it for quite a while now. It allows them to use different
> tools for booting and other things such as Targeted booting from
> external drives or a network card or a CD or DVD or even (if equipped)
> and X-Serve array.
>
> It is by no means ANYTHING like BIOS, as BIOS has tremendous
> limitations.
> --
> greg, greg at gregfolkert.net
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