Removing the Leopard Dual Boot Loader

[Petervanakelyen]

I have Vista Ultimate and Leopard 10.5.2 (Leo4all v3)

 

I can boot MacOS X with the Vista Bootloader.

When I select Mac OS X in the Vista Bootloader, it comes to the Darwin screen, but then it asks to select wich OS I want to boot.

 

I want to get rid of the Leopard Bootloader asking me wich OS to boot, because I have already selected OS X.

 

Do you get what I mean ?

 

In Tiger, you had to edit the configuration file: 'com.apple.boot.plist' but I can't find it in Leopard...

 

Thanks,

Peter

[SticMAC™]

You need to edit you com.apple.Boot.plist in your Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directory

 

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

 

 

It should have NO Kernel Flags, ie "-v" to show the boot sequence

and

It should have no Time out as not to wait, but boot immediately! Remember don't make the "Time Out" "0" but remove it completely!

This will remove the "press F8 to......2 message and take you directly to the OS

 

SticMAN

 

 

 

 

 

I have Vista Ultimate and Leopard 10.5.2 (Leo4all v3)

 

I can boot MacOS X with the Vista Bootloader.

When I select Mac OS X in the Vista Bootloader, it comes to the Darwin screen, but then it asks to select wich OS I want to boot.

 

I want to get rid of the Leopard Bootloader asking me wich OS to boot, because I have already selected OS X.

 

Do you get what I mean ?

 

In Tiger, you had to edit the configuration file: 'com.apple.boot.plist' but I can't find it in Leopard...

 

Thanks,

Peter

[Petervanakelyen]

You need to edit you com.apple.Boot.plist in your Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directory

 

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

 

 

It should have NO Kernel Flags, ie "-v" to show the boot sequence

and

It should have no Time out as not to wait, but boot immediately! Remember don't make the "Time Out" "0" but remove it completely!

This will remove the "press F8 to......2 message and take you directly to the OS

 

SticMAN

 

OK, but I think I will have a problem, then, because the OS X Bootloader automatically boots the first partition with Vista.

I have to select the MAC partition manually, but if I don't get the choice it will probably boot Vista.

 

I need to configure the OS X Bootloader to load MacOS X from the second partition, with OS X, whitout asking.

 

Is that possible ?

[Petervanakelyen]

Does nobody has an answer ?

[macgirl]

Darwin Bootloader Selects by default the Active partition, so if you are booting from vista no matter if the partition is at beginning or at end if it is active Darwin will selected for boot.

 

There is no configuration file or key to pre-select another partition.

[ReyZ]

Darwin Bootloader Selects by default the Active partition, so if you are booting from vista no matter if the partition is at beginning or at end if it is active Darwin will selected for boot.

 

There is no configuration file or key to pre-select another partition.

 

 

but how to make a hd be the active partition,

for instance: i installed:

1) mac on hd(0,1) and then

2) suse on hd(0,2).

now suse is active at boot and i have to go through suse-grub to load to mac,

it works, but how to get rid of suse-grub and make mac-osx-partition active at boot.

[gadgeteer]

hi. i'm a newbie at this and dont understand programming. i have a very similar situation. i am running 10.5.2 Kalway dualboot with XP. when i startup i get the XP bootloader showing option to boot Windows XP or Mac OSX86 - with timer to autoboot on XP. When i choose Windows XP, it boots up directly with no issues.

 

But if i choose Mac OSX86, the Darwin boot timer runs and then i still have to choose again between NTFS (hd 0,1) and the Mac (hd 0,2).

 

I'd like to get rid of the Darwin boot and countdown altogether and just use the default Windows XP bootloader. Can someone please give me a step-by-step guide as i do not understand any of the instructions given above. Thanks!

[macgirl]

but how to make a hd be the active partition,

for instance: i installed:

1) mac on hd(0,1) and then

2) suse on hd(0,2).

now suse is active at boot and i have to go through suse-grub to load to mac,

it works, but how to get rid of suse-grub and make mac-osx-partition active at boot.

 

Here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

 

Also to activate a partition you ca use any partition manager like Partition Magic, Acronis Disk directore, etc, also there is a livecd for gparted.

 

hi. i'm a newbie at this and dont understand programming. i have a very similar situation. i am running 10.5.2 Kalway dualboot with XP. when i startup i get the XP bootloader showing option to boot Windows XP or Mac OSX86 - with timer to autoboot on XP. When i choose Windows XP, it boots up directly with no issues.

 

But if i choose Mac OSX86, the Darwin boot timer runs and then i still have to choose again between NTFS (hd 0,1) and the Mac (hd 0,2).

 

I'd like to get rid of the Darwin boot and countdown altogether and just use the default Windows XP bootloader. Can someone please give me a step-by-step guide as i do not understand any of the instructions given above. Thanks!

 

There is no way to make Darwin bootloader to chose a non active partition by default, you need to modify the sources and compile it to make it choose a different partition thant the active one.

 

Read these guides for dual boot:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=52954

 

For me a better way is to choose Darwin as the Initial bootloader (since I use mac more tha any other OS) then in the other bootaloaders (vista, XP and Grub) I do not have any other option so I only choose one time at the first boot menu.