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Hey everyone. I'm working through my first install of Arch on my macbook pro and I ran into a problem. I want to use ATI's catalyst drivers, these require BIOS, but my computer has EFI and Arch tells me that Vbios fails each time I boot.
I'm dual booting OS X 10.4 and Arch with refit. I thought I read somewhere that the new firmware for the macbooks automatically emulates BIOS if need be. If this is the case I'm wondering why my Vbios keeps failing. If the firmware does not emulate BIOS is there a way I can get BIOS emulation without a reinstall?
Thanks in advance.
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I would recommend dropping EFI entirely. Yes, you can still run OSX on an MBRed Mac. You can not install to an MBRed hard drive, but you can push an image. I did it by simply making an image of my OSX partition on my EFI MBP, cleared off EFI and setup the hard drive as a normal, MBRed hard drive, and then pushed the image back on.
Here's a how to I put together a while back.
HowTo: OSX, WinXP, & Vista with Grub hiding, and Linux -- On One Hard Drive
DrCR
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Last edited by DrCR (2008-02-12 05:16:09)
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If I drop EFI will I get the bios emulation I need for 3d acceleration? Can I undo the deletion of EFI later if I so choose?
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