Re: install/52094 (amd64 iso is only bootable in efi mode on legacy Mac)

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

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From: Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/52094 (amd64 iso is only bootable in efi mode on legacy
 Mac)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:15:35 +0100

 On 03/06/2018 12:10, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > So how does it decide whether to offer the legacy one? Testing for the
 >  EFI boot partition is easy, but I am not sure how it can tell a working
 >  MBR from a dummy.
 
 I'm not sure how it decides because it's all automagic and while you can
 add a third party console (rEFIt / rEFInd), you essentially end up
 chain-loading for one and our media works with such tools usually which
 doesn't help shed any light.
 
 Sevan