Dual Boot without Darwin F8

[atanamir]

Hi everyone,

 

I was searching for this, but it was hard to formulate a query that gave good results. Is there any bootloader that can boot up both Windows Vista and OS X without having to press F8 again at the Darwin Bootloader? Basically, I've only tried the chain0 method and it's quite irritating.

 

If I do grub, will that solve the problem?

 

I would still like to have the option to press F8 in case I need to do diagnostics, but as I won't be the primary user of the computer, it would be nice to let her just pick OS X and have it boot into it without having to select twice.

 

 

Thank you!

[wmarsh]

Hi everyone,

 

I was searching for this, but it was hard to formulate a query that gave good results. Is there any bootloader that can boot up both Windows Vista and OS X without having to press F8 again at the Darwin Bootloader? Basically, I've only tried the chain0 method and it's quite irritating.

 

If I do grub, will that solve the problem?

 

I would still like to have the option to press F8 in case I need to do diagnostics, but as I won't be the primary user of the computer, it would be nice to let her just pick OS X and have it boot into it without having to select twice.

Thank you!

Grub works nicely, here is my tutorial

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752

 

However, Darwin is an integral part of OS X. But if your objective is to not see the Darwin boot screen, you can do that by editing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist

 

as su, add the following:

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

[atanamir]

Grub works nicely, here is my tutorial

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752

 

However, Darwin is an integral part of OS X. But if your objective is to not see the Darwin boot screen, you can do that by editing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist

 

as su, add the following:

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

 

Hi wmarsh,

 

Thanks for that great tutorial. It doubled as a crash course in grub for me =). The instructions were great and easy to follow. However, after configuring everything, Windows and Ubuntu boot beautifully -- however, the root problem still seems to be there. When i pick Mac OS X in the grub menu, it puts me into the boot loader for darwin -- which then tries to boot Windows NTFS, if I don't 'press any key' and select Mac OS X again. Is it possible to put the files in /boot on the HFS+ partition, and then set that active too? I tried 'makeactive', but it only makes the root partition (right now the Linux partition) active. I need to be able to boot the pc_efi, as well as set the OS X partition active in order to achieve the configuration I want.

 

It would be great is makeactive could just take a parameter that specifies which partition is to be set active. then the root disk can still be the linux partition, and the active partition can be switched to the Mac OS partition.

 

Any more ideas?

 

Thank you

[atanamir]

Hi,

 

To anyone who is curious, I figured it out. By bypassing pc_efi completely and just setting the root partition to the Mac OS X partition in grub, and adding the makeactive line and chainloader +1, I was able to get Mac OS X to boot without having to press a key and select it again (e.g. it works with a single select). Same with windows. =)

 

If anyone wants more details, I can post them here.

[servantofchristjesus]

If anyone wants more details, I can post them here.

Hi Atanamir, please explain the procedure you carried out in detail.