Ticket: ticket #6242

Status

At least on some Mac's, once feature/uefi is merged, Tails can boot fine without rEFInd: one has to press Alt before powering the laptop up, and keep it pressed until a menu appears, and then choose the entry that's called Boot EFI (as every other entry) and looks like a USB stick.

Resources

• Mike Hommey's Debian EFI mode boot on a Macbook Pro, without rEFIt.
• Matthew Garrett detailed the ISO images for Fedora 17 installation CD and their Mac support: it supports BIOS, UEFI, Mac platforms when burned to a CD or written directly to a USB stick. This might be nice for the ISO that Tails distribute, but not applicable to support USB sticks with incremental updates.
• http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind
• http://refind.sf.net
• http://refit.sf.net/info/apple_efi.html
• http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter4/efiprogramming
• http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter4/firmware
• http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/EFI