emistral Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hi all, I have successfully installed 10.5.6 using the boot 132 cd and chameleon_dfe_for_harddisk. This version of chameleon was in the generic.iso image and also the one recommended in a tutorial. Everything is working fine. The only annoying thing is that when I switch the pc, it will show me 2 partitions and select the booting one. When I installed macos, I created a partition of 50GB just for macos and the application and another one of 270GB for data, etc... They are on the same disk. The bootloader keeps asking me to select one partition then press enter. Once I press enter , it loads fine. I would like to know if there is a way to force the bootloader to boot automatically without asking me to select the appropriate partition? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Yes. Edit com.apple.Boot.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. You should have the following code: <key>Timeout</key> <string>5</string> This will start OS X after 5 seconds. If you just want it to boot right up, you can remove the above code and add: <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>Yes</string> The easiest way to edit this file: 1. Download & run OSx86Tools by PCWiz. 2. Click on "Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I like to use EFI Studio when I have to edit boot.plist, it's faster and simpler for this purpose than OSX86Tools. There's still life left in the old dog yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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