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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mi, 02 Dez 2009, Albert Vilella wrote:
> What you mean by want us to update so that we cannot do any bios hacking?

The new bios has closed the EFI boot hole where you can boot from an usb
stick and change settings in the bios.

> or... is the EFI related to mackintoshes?

Macs do use EFI, but it is not specific to them.


Best wishes

Norbert

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