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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:11:00
Message-Id: CAOdo=Sy5v=sEoUHFG=eZTQL8J_M_DzDYMT5PvB20dhND19abzA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!! by Mick
1 On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 14:44:45 Tom H wrote:
3 >>
4 >> [1] Apple's EFI firmware can read hfsplus and it boots (IIRC since OS
5 >> X 10.10) from a kernel on the Apple_Boot partition (disk0s3).
6 >
7 > Yes, Apple's firmware reads the blessed hfs+ partition and fishes out
8 > its bootx64.efi file kernel image, but I thought this was from the
9 > second partition where the OS is installed. I'll have a look tomorrow
10 > when I boot it up.
11
12 AFAIK, since the advent of defaulting to CoreStorage (OS X 10.10? - OS
13 X's equivalent of LVM) and full-disk encryption (OS X 10.10?),
14 bootx64.efi/boot.efi cannot be loaded from disk0s2.

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