dududau Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 I've tried searching the whole forum but i couldnt find a problem similar to mine. Here's my situation: - I installed osx86 (10.4.5) on my partitioned harddisk - everything is working in order - darwin bootloader first appears - windows bootloader appears 2nd (if i choose to go to windows from darwin bootloader) - took away "C:\chain0="Mac OSX" because couldnt be bothered to select two times to go into windows My problem: - I want darwin bootloader to select windows os as a default - There are forums that teaches how to select different partition as default. But only if that partition is also MAC osx. Because when i try it, it does not choose windows os as a default, and i get a kernel panic trying to boot osx86. - Next time I retry, darwin bootloader is gone. Straight into windows. - I placed C:\chain0 thing back again. - Now, when i boot, windows bootloader comes first. darwin 2nd. - fixed my osx86 boot back to the original Please read here if you cant be bothered reading the top part: I want: - to know how to change darwin settings to select windows os as default, if that's possible - to know how to disable darwin bootloader Just those 2...thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Adding the following to boot.plist should effectively disable the darwin bootloader: <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>0</string> I believe that to change darwin settings to select windows os as default, you need to change the line in boot.ini so that it points to your Windows partition instead of the MacOSX hard drive. As in, replace: C:\chain0="Mac OS X" to C:\chain0="my windows partition" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dududau Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 Hey, thanks for the reply. Actually, what does Quiet Boot does? From the wiki page, it says "not to see the darwin text during boot". What darwin text is it talking about. Anyway, I've tested your method, Quiet Boot makes no difference for me. The funny thing now, darwin bootloader selects windows os as the default partition to load!! weird huh! Luckily i didn't change the timeout to 0 seconds, or else i wouldnt be able to log into my mac osx. Haha, any idea? Just need to know how to change the setting of darwin bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caladan1810 Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Hey, thanks for the reply. Actually, what does Quiet Boot does? From the wiki page, it says "not to see the darwin text during boot". What darwin text is it talking about. Anyway, I've tested your method, Quiet Boot makes no difference for me. The funny thing now, darwin bootloader selects windows os as the default partition to load!! weird huh! Luckily i didn't change the timeout to 0 seconds, or else i wouldnt be able to log into my mac osx. Haha, any idea? Just need to know how to change the setting of darwin bootloader. Quiet Boot is actually when ou see the grey screen with the apple logo hence you see no text being parsed from Darwin in verbose mode usually -v so you can see all the messages as the system starts services etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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