zek Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 i wanted osx to be my primary OS so i followed the tutorial and set the osx partition as my primary. the only exception is that the darwin bootloader loads up osx instantly..it doesn't give me a boot option. how can i get my windows partition back, or at least get acronis back to allow me to switch os's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenokira Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 never used Acronis, but if you boot from the Partition Magic disc and go into boot magic, you can select which OS to partition to boot from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 zek search for "com.apple.Boot.plist" in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. Open it with Text Edit. Basically you have to add: <key>Timeout</key> <string>8</string> next to the other keys. You can replace 8 with what value you want. It is the time (in seconds) until Darwin boots to the default OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zek Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 excellent thank you both for your help:D great to come home from work with great answers :glare: thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenokira Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 zek: np. belgrano: Is it possible to change the default OS for Darwin? As of late I have only been using the Darwin boot loader between Windows and OSX, which is fine except that I would prefer it defaulted to Windows instead of OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 AFAIK it's not possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenokira Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 okay, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakine Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 I have XP and OSX on different physical hard drives, I can select which drive to boot by pressing F8 after the BIOS Post test, then I can select with drive to boot from. Just my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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