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one thing confuses me about this hackintosh phenomenon. macs always made a pretty big deal out of their pram, which is where they store which partition to boot off of and a lot of other stuff. how is that emulated on garden-variety pcs?

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That stuff dissapeared with PowerPC.

They're EFI-based now.

But PC laptops still don't have EFI I thought.

The hackintosh mods add EFI emulation, I think.

Although they're EFI based, this has nothing to do with the PRAM of older PPC macs, which has become less and less used since the advent of OS X which stores 99% of it's settings in .plist files on the HD. the PRAM used to store all sorts of information but now I think it's probably only used to store the startup disk preference and other minor things.

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