Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

~ hucktech

The whole purpose of the BootROM and EFI phases is to get to load and run the macOS kernel and its extensions, which is what boot.efi, the “OS X booter”, finally does. Although boot.efi doesn’t suddenly vanish, from here on it is very little needed.[…]

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

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