EFI Text Mode

From Mactel-Linux

Here is a small EFI program to switch the EFI console to text mode: TextMode.efi. If you bless that file, you'll be dropped into the built-in boot menu right away, without pressing space first. (Note that this only works on the iMac with the original firmware. Apple removed this loophole in the later models and in the Boot Camp firmware updates.)

The source is available in the rEFIt repository in the refit/TextMode directory.

If this snippet of code would be added to elilo's initialization, we could have elilo's boot prompt or text menu visible right away on Intel Macs.

Update: A patch has been submitted to the elilo project, see the Building elilo page for details.