MacNutty Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Hi there, I was wondering if I can install apple bootpicker and can get the same gui interface to choose OS like this: I got apple bootpicker from this site http://www.apple.com/education/it/bootpicker/ and will try to install it. If any suggestions or comments please do post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 11, 2008 Author Share Posted October 11, 2008 Tried it boot options also appeared but was unable to boot into windows, after selecting windows also it would boot into mac os only. Finally, uninstalled it. Any help for my above question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Here's my try with Apple Bootpicker.......... My machine absolutely refused to load Vista!! For some reason it is unable to verify the Spare HDD in order to load it!? So if it ONLY wants to run MacOSX then I'm going to let it!! No alternative OS'es, so no Bootpicker for me!!! and this bugs me: "Depending on the OS choice, the machine either continues with Mac OS X or reboots to the specified OS." This means you are going to startup your machine and when you're at the login screen, and choose another OS it will shutdown and reboot! To me it just sound like a lot of rebooting(sounds like Microstuff) this also answers this..."I .....was unable to boot into windows....", It is unable to make the windows drive active or whatever partition you had the other OS on! Like theoption button on a real mac or the choose "Startup Disk2 itONLY works on a Mac, a GENUNE Mac!!!! SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ BlurKing Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I think I got the same result as MacNutty.. Got the Bootpicker and clicked Mac OS, then entered Mac OS X, but dunno about Windows. Picture attached. Anyway if that's the case then it CANNOT be an alternative to the Darwin Bootloader. If you are not a noob you should know why. for those who don't know: Darwin Bootloader gets past the EFI thing required by OS X. So this one is not loaded at startup... hah so can't be used Hey cool! If you enabled Fast User Switching and select Login Window from it, the bootpicker would load too! (Fast user switching can be enabled in the Accounts preference pane in System Preferences) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSMac Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Has anyone managed to create a work around for this to work on an hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Can't the EFI emulated to get the graphical boot loader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 I just need the graphical boot chooser instead of text based Darwin boot loader. Can't it be done? Please help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
identity Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 good idea....i will try this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 Thanks a lot man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
identity Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 it didnt work for me also... @macnutty sent u pm plz read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Massman Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 would it not be possible to create something similar to this using apple scripts and a simple gui? ok, so you start up your computer. leopard starts. up pops a box, 'do you want OS X or windows?' the button saying os x simply closes the window and lets you carry on using your computer and the windows button opens an apple script that changes the active partition on your drive to the windows one and then reboots. the computer starts up again but this time you're in windows. and i imagine a similar thing could be set up in windows? i wouldn't know where to start but if anyone has any ideas i'm all ears. Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuCasn Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I think it would be easier to port the GRUB console to Mac OS (may already be done, I did no research), with which you can then set the partition to boot on next boot only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 I am just trying to say that it should work as same as Darwin / Chamelon boot loader, the only difference should be that it should be GUI as in real macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I am just trying to say that it should work as same as Darwin / Chamelon boot loader, the only difference should be that it should be GUI as in real macs. But BootPicker doesn't work that way. It was originally developed by the developer of Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/software/bootpicker.html) and it works pretty much as EL Massaman described. It actually boots into Leopard then resets the startup drive and reboots. What you seem to be asking for is a graphical seelction utility before OSX boots. Update: Well I checked out the source code and basically it does a "bless" followed by a "fdisk" to make a partition bootable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSMac Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The system should boot after selecting XP. Does anyone now why it doesn't even try to restart the system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 While reading apple guide for boot camp I thing I understood that if I add / select another disk in startup disk option in system preference then I will be getting the same menu to choose the disk. Can anybody tell me how to add disk to startup disk option as no disk is shown in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartNijland Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I would only like to see something like bootpicker. Or atleast some GUI bootmenu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSMac Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Join the club!!! And I'm unable to use BIOS because of my beautiful Apple Wireless Keyboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scififan68 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 While reading apple guide for boot camp I thing I understood that if I add / select another disk in startup disk option in system preference then I will be getting the same menu to choose the disk. Can anybody tell me how to add disk to startup disk option as no disk is shown in there... Your on a hack, of course os x isn't going to see anything in startup disk. The graphical bootloader is only available on real macs as of now. pcefi and Chamelon doesn't emulate the whole efi firmware so the graphical bootloader isn't working on hacks as of now, but who knows in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 Can't anyone try to develop such a bootloader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonatasmz Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 i would love to see this working =\ cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XSMac Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Has anyone tried to configure darwin bootloader and then using bootpicker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 I have brought up this topic again as yesterday I installed the Acronis OS selector and got an GUI toolkit before the boot process took place. I was just wondering that if these people (Acronis) could develop a GUI OS selector then why can't any of the gurus try to do the same with the textual Darwin Boot loader? Can it be possible to get the original boot volume chooser from any of the Mac and modify it so that it can run on a Hackintosh? Please if anyone having good knowledge about the booting process of Apple, can please explain me why the GUI boot loader is not possible in Hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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