![]() If this step does not work, there is no reason to continue, as my method is dependent on this Live CD to work.Ģ. When you hold down Option,The EFI boot from USB icon should appear on the screen. First make sure that WinPE live CD performs a proper EFI boot.īasically all you need to do is format a USB drive with fat32 and drop the files onto that disk. I have tested this and you WILL be able to update drivers AFTER you have a Windows desktop.ġ. I did not have much success slipstreaming current nvidia drivers EVEN after expanding them and slipstreaming the drivers. Make sure that you slipstream drivers that come directly from the Apple CD or from the boot camp distrubution itself. Therefore, I will be covering a dual boot situation with OS X and Windows 7.ĩ. I require a dual boot System for programming in Xcode. Please feel free to modify this method for your purposes. I have a Logitech microphone with a green LED.Ĩ. This isn't necesasry, but maybe a USB device that indicates it is connected will be helpful. You have to be able to test different drivers.ħ. This isn't easy, especially the 2nd part of the install where you don't see anything. A USB drive that is large enough to just hold the contents of your ISO (I used no physical media. A Windows 7 install.wim slipstreamed into Windows 8 ISO is the only way to get past this.ĥ. If this does not happen, it will report the Drive is of type GPT error. The installer expects it to be called from winload.efi. I tested the Win7 installer using this method and it still will not allow you to select EFI, even when you are clearly booted into it and have graphical output. WinPE just allows us to boot into the environment that we need to get SOME graphical output. Slipstreamed Windows 7 install.wim that will be called from the Windows 8 installer. An OS X install disk so you can be sure you can bless the EFI shell binary.Ĥ. EFI shell binary that you can drop on your EFI partition (I used rEFIt's).ģ. EFI is great in that you can boot off of FAT32 formatted partitions. The awesome thing about the method I used is that it cuts back on coasters. Please make sure you are able to boot this off of USB. However, I do not believe someone has used my method. Most of this info is freely available on the thread. I cannot guarantee this will work for you. This is my work spanning 21 straight days of labor + a couple weeks of intermittant attempts at getting things working the way I want them to. However, some just want to attempt an EFI install. ![]() People like me are definitely interested in this aspect of the discussion. We really need to split this off in it's own section. ![]() ![]() There is a lot of theory and programming being thrown around at the beginning of the thread. This is an effort to get the most practical issue out of the way, installation. It appears that this thread is all over the map. Therefore, I have been looking for a workaround for my problem. I have reached a point where the number of operating systems has surpassed the ability of MBR/BIOS boot methods. I am a Systems Administrator and unfortunately, there are some things you cannot test inside a virtual machine. Since I got my Mac Pro, I have wanted an EFI boot. I have been keeping up with this thread since late 2011.
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