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Where's the BIOS on an Intel Mac?

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Mar 15, 202656794 views
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When I use my laptop, I have no trouble at all accessing the BIOS and changing things like the boot order. However I recently got an iMac and have found that not only do the usual keys not get me to the BIOS, but when I find one that gets me to a boot menu (holding option when booting up) it won't …

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Fix for: Where's the BIOS on an Intel Mac?

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There is no BIOS on a Mac. It uses EFI, which can be configured from within OS X e.g. using from the command line. You are able to boot from external USB drives that satisfy some requirements. There are some key combinations that change the boot seq…

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