Re: [Qemu-devel] osx bootloader

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> BTW, when you say "use Apple's EFI bootloader" what do you mean ?
>
> Is that some piece of software we'd have to download and build,
> like Chameleon? Or would TianoCore in theory be capable of doing
> what the Apple EFI Bios does and load XNU from the hard drive
> image directly, and there's some default bootloader placed there
> by the OS X installer, kinda like grub in the Linux world ?
>
> If the latter, I think understanding how Chameleon does that part
> would come in handy (for me at least, since I don't have a good
> mental map on how things work before the XNU kernel starts running).

Here are some pages that might help enlightening the boot process:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/booting/booting.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/efi-boot-process.html#Apple
http://developer.apple.com./mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/References/ManPages/man8/bless.8.html

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan