#REFIT DID NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.12 INSTALL#
#REFIT DID NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.12 PRO#

I heard that some people had this problem with their mobo when firmware glitched to black screen or ubuntu changed efi partition to fat16 and glitched sth on m2 macbook drive (or sth, maybe soldered hard drive idk). Old macs uses code from EFI 1.x which is more vulnerable to bugs in it's way of communicating to firmware and using different tools instead one UEFI. Does mac work simillarly?Īlso is there LEFI or other interfaces than BIOS and UEFI generally? UEFI is both EFI 1.x and EFI 2.x. On PC I can do anything to my EFI and boot through any efi file I want. How does the efi work in Mac? Is it simillar to PC. Would I be able at least to go terminal after changing the bootloader (and check here - maybe Gparted messed sth there - gparted is really bad software, I would use paragon partition manager instead)? Maybe replacing boot.efi from coreservices would do the trick (anytime I can replace it back to original one)? Can I change bless from hack for other mac? Some people just were removing refit.efi from efi partition or sth. Ideally maybe creating small partition for booting through refit without changing the bless. (I am worried about only pendrive that will someday break from it.but 1gb one for it will be fine option). If it's safer then I'm okay to use it every time I want to boot to Windows.

#REFIT DID NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.12 INSTALL#

So mac loads first its bootloader, then from mac I can boot to another bootloader and then I can boot to not natively supported Windows and install for it bootcamp drivers.īooting through usb is another option.

Ideally I would want to have slow workaround for this. I don't have backup of firmware bin/raw file (doesn't want to flash anything) and clone of drive. What I should have before proceeding? I have hack, backup of files, separated partition for system, free 1TB drive, backup of efi, disk station, maybe a system recovery (didn't do anything with it after installing os x on clean drive), can use paragon if really needed. It will not probably work natively, but maybe through refit. So can I use PC to install windows on external disk on one NTFS partition (Mac partition is FAT32, not encrypted) and then connect it to mac. (I'm curious also I can't solder anything but fry lol ):Īdding any efi files to efi partition mac does not change anything. Purpose: I would want to install Windows on existing NTFS partition instead formatting whole drive (and tweaking for Win7 圆4 bootcamp).

#REFIT DID NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.12 PRO#

Can Refit hard brick my Mac Pro 1,1 2006?

Refit did not work on mac os 10.12