Hi everyone,
My goal is to patch Mac Mini mid 2010 EFI in order to unlock VT-X (virtualization) CPU functionality. I've tried to play with this https://github.com/dreamcat4/efi-enable-vtx, but this method using outdated refit utility (and it doesn't work for me, console didn't load). So the recommended way to fix it is to run refind instead.
I successfully installed refind on my Mac Min, I have folder EFI with tools inside. Also I've installed all drivers for 64 platform. When I reboot computer, I see bootloader screen, I select console and try to run it. It says something like "Starting Shell.efi, Load Option"", Invalid loader file (I can reproduce message a bit later, if it necessary). Then it hits me back to main screen.
Could you please advice me, how to properly configure shell.efi to load?
Last edit: Dmitry 2014-06-18
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Where did you get the shell.efi file? There are quite a few EFI shell binaries floating around, and they're not all identical. rEFIt came with one, the rEFInd CD-R and USB images come with another one (actually two, one for 64-bit and another for 32-bit), others are available from all sorts of sites, etc. (Note that I don't distribute EFI shells with the rEFInd .zip, .rpm, or .deb package files, but I do include them with the bootable disk images because those are intended as useful emergency utilities, where an EFI shell would be handy.) See the Arch Linux wiki for a few download links and information on EFI shells.
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Hi everyone,
My goal is to patch Mac Mini mid 2010 EFI in order to unlock VT-X (virtualization) CPU functionality. I've tried to play with this https://github.com/dreamcat4/efi-enable-vtx, but this method using outdated refit utility (and it doesn't work for me, console didn't load). So the recommended way to fix it is to run refind instead.
I successfully installed refind on my Mac Min, I have folder EFI with tools inside. Also I've installed all drivers for 64 platform. When I reboot computer, I see bootloader screen, I select console and try to run it. It says something like "Starting Shell.efi, Load Option"", Invalid loader file (I can reproduce message a bit later, if it necessary). Then it hits me back to main screen.
Could you please advice me, how to properly configure shell.efi to load?
Last edit: Dmitry 2014-06-18
Where did you get the
shell.efifile? There are quite a few EFI shell binaries floating around, and they're not all identical. rEFIt came with one, the rEFInd CD-R and USB images come with another one (actually two, one for 64-bit and another for 32-bit), others are available from all sorts of sites, etc. (Note that I don't distribute EFI shells with the rEFInd.zip,.rpm, or.debpackage files, but I do include them with the bootable disk images because those are intended as useful emergency utilities, where an EFI shell would be handy.) See the Arch Linux wiki for a few download links and information on EFI shells.