nekonoko Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I've been running EFIv8 for a couple months now, but I have an issue where it simply boots into Mac OS X instantaneously - there's no countdown to allow me to hit F8 to enter boot parameters. Mac OS X is the only OS installed on the machine so perhaps that's the issue. I recently installed Chameleon hoping it would help but it does the same (instant boot). Is there a way to introduce a countdown to allow for for F8/boot flags? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111711-setting-efiv8chameleon-boot-delay/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 open terminal type: sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist navigate(using the arrow keys) your way to the line above </dict> and press enter so you can type in some stuff in the space, type <key>timeout</key> <string>8</string> *8 for 8 secs <do not type this> then press crtl-x and save it should look something like this : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>timeout</key> <string>8</string> </dict> </plist> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111711-setting-efiv8chameleon-boot-delay/#findComment-791187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekonoko Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Perfect, that did the trick. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111711-setting-efiv8chameleon-boot-delay/#findComment-791231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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