Booting into EFI

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How do i boot into EFI(mac version of BIOS) Isorta want to check this out. would it be stupid to do this, can i f up my powerbook if i hit something?
 
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that would be really interesting to see.. it probably is not a good idea though, they don't let you boot into it easily like on a windows box.. but it can't be harmful if you don't change anything.
 
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i remember when i got my powerbook somethign was faulty so when i booted it up 15 minutes later it crashed and i had a MS Office disk in it i was starting to install the guy at the store booted into EFI to get it to eject. if someone knows how that would be sick.
 
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You can't boot into EFI on the Intel Macs.

Karpfish24 said:
i remember when i got my powerbook somethign was faulty so when i booted it up 15 minutes later it crashed and i had a MS Office disk in it i was starting to install the guy at the store booted into EFI to get it to eject. if someone knows how that would be sick.
Since you can't have the MacBook Pro yet the apple guy booted into OpenFirmware (no longer on intel macs)
 
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umm, did i say i had an intel mac? EFI is the same thing as open firmware, how do i boot into that?
 
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pbook24 said:
umm, did i say i had an intel mac? EFI is the same thing as open firmware, how do i boot into that?
Oh sorry I was under the impression that you had an Intel mac. OpenFirmware (not EFI) is Command + Shift + O + F right after you press the power button.
 
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Benjamindaines said:
Oh sorry I was under the impression that you had an Intel mac. OpenFirmware (not EFI) is Command + Shift + O + F right after you press the power button.

sorry,but are there any possibilites that i mess anything up whe i go into this?
 
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pbook24 said:
sorry,but are there any possibilites that i mess anything up whe i go into this?
I don't know if you can hose your system from there, but I wouldn't be surprised if you can. So if you go in only use commands you know, I only know two; eject-cd (will spit out your CD [what the guy used]) and mac-boot (obviously will boot your computer.)
 
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Can't hose your machine unless you sit and start typing random (correct) commands. We use OF all the time at work to diagnose and troubleshoot. It's basically a command prompt that looks like ?>... So.. Go for it, but there is absolutely nothing to see there. Dare I say a DOS prompt on a winbox is more exciting.
 

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