iDeneb 1.3 (10.5.5) Bootloader Menu

[ifony]

Hi,

 

I have successfully installed iDeneb 1.3 (10.5.5) on my HP Compaq nx7400 laptop. I have configured the laptop as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP and OSX. I am using the chain0 method to allow the Windows bootloader to boot either operating system.

 

When I select OSX it appears that what really happens is that I invoke the OSX bootloader. First I see a screen full of EBIOS read errors. I think these may be attempts to find an image on my third data partitition which is a Primary partition but with no boot code.

 

The OSX bootloader menu appears after a few seconds of the EBIOS errors. The bootloader shows Windows and OSX as the two options with Windows as the default. I understand from postings on the OSx86 installation forums that this is because Windows is the active partition. I want to keep Windows as the active partition because I want to use the Windows bootloader.

 

I would like to remove Windows from the OSX bootloader list and have the OSX bootloader simply boot OSX instead of giving me a list - I already get that from the Windows bootloader.

 

I believe this is normally accomplished using the bless command. However, I cannot successfully run bless. It always gives me the message "Can't access efi-boot-device NVRAM variable". I suspect this has something to do with whatever hack was done to get iDeneb to run on non-Apple hardware.

 

Can anyone tell me how to cause the OSX bootloader to just boot OSX and not investigate the other partitions and allow the option to boot other operating systems from those other partitions?

 

Thanks