Before you read any further, take note: altering your EFI boot partition is not supported by Apple and The Mac Admin takes no responsibility if you render your computer(s) unbootable by mounting and modifying this partition. However, the EFI partition is used as a staging area for firmware updates.” When people look to create non-standard boot environments or attempt to build a hackintosh, the first step is often mounting and modifying the EFI boot partition.
Here’s the answer to another reader request…Īccording to WIkipedia, “On Apple–Intel architecture Macintosh computers, the EFI partition is initially blank and not used for booting.
