(solved) how to get boot-132 to automatically boot partition (i.e. skip Darwin screen)?

[whya]

hi,

 

how can i get boot-132 to automatically boot, without prompting me to select the partition and press <enter> (there is only one partition displayed)?

 

my setup...

 

- basically, i installed retail leopard on one of my hard drives using a boot-132 cdrom, and then copied the contents of the boot-132 cdrom to a small partition on the same drive

 

- then i instruct grub to load boot-132 as follows:

 

title boot-132 (Modified) - Drive #3

kernel (hd2,1)/boot/boot-132-modified/boot

modulenounzip (hd2,1)/boot/boot-132-modified/initrd.img

 

it seems to work fine, except for the fact that it stops on the "Darwin" boot prompt and waits until i press <enter>

 

so, how can i get boot-132 to automatically boot, without prompting me to press <enter>?

 

btw, i tried adding this to the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

 

but it didn't have any effect...

[whya]

it now boots automatically!

 

so modifying the com.apple.Boot.plist worked after all; either i had an error in the file, or adding the Timeout somehow fixed it

 

<plist version="1.0">

−

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>12</string>

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

</dict>

</plist>

[horseshit]

Do you have to use grub for this to work or can I just edit my plist on my boot 132?

[whya]

No, you don't need to use grub for this to work, because this file is read by the Darwin boot loader, and not by grub.

 

You just need to edit this file in your Leopard installation:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

If you google around, you'll find that there are many startup options that you can specify in this file, e.g. specific kernel, kernel options, verbose mode, etc.