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stuppy
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Hey

 

Wasn't sure where to post this - think its more a hardware than software question.

 

My setup is this :-

I have an x86 computer that runs OSX and Windows Vista. They are installed on seperate hard drives. By default, the drive with OSX installed is the primary boot volume. In order for me to boot into Vista, I have to press F12 and select the second drive with Windows on it from the boot selection menu.

 

I do a lot of remote accessing of this computer. There have been times when I have wanted to get into my Vista setup but I can't cause if I remote access to OSX and reboot, it just reboots back to OSX.

 

So, what I am basically asking is - is there a way for me, from inside OSX before rebooting, to tell the BIOS that on next boot, boot the Vista volume rather than the primary OSX volume?

 

I don't think its possible but would be very handy for me if it were.

 

Many thanks.

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ver2go
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Bumping this to see if anyone can help?

 

Im wondering whether its possible to trigger Chameleon to boot the Windows volume before shutting down from Mac OSX? Like a one off setting that defaults after rebooting?

 

Thanks

 

create 2 com.apple.boot.plist 1 that defaults to osx and one that defaults to windows. write a script that will copy the one you want to /Extra/

So when you reboot it will cause Chameleon to boot the new default

stuppy
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Hi.

 

Sorry. I just actually installed Chameleon 2.0RC1 from the latest 1.x version. It created the older /Extras on my OSX root. What is this Extras folder for? Is anything in there loaded (i.e. the kext files) ?

 

If I have 2 kext files the same name (i.e. one in /Extras and one in /System that are the same name) - does the /Extra's one take priority loading and cancels the /System one out?

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//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>-v</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

<key>SMbiosversion</key>

<string>MP31.88Z.00C1.B00.080209154</string>

<key>SMmanufacter</key>

<string>Apple Inc.</string>

<key>SMproductname</key>

<string>MacPro3,1</string>

<key>SMexternalclock</key>

<string>266</string>

<key>SMmaximalclock</key>

<string>2400</string>

<key>SMmemmanufacter</key>

<string>Kingston</string>

<key>SMmempart</key>

<string>0x0000FFFF</string>

<key>SMmemserial</key>

<string>0x48092D503537345336304350362D09352020</string>

<key>SMmemspeed</key>

<string>800</string>

<key>SMmemtype</key>

<string>19</string>

<key>SMsystemversion</key>

<string>1.0</string>

<key>SMserial</key>

<string>W88261E7YP4</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

That is the boot.plist file in /Extras. In SystemProfiler however it shows as MacPro2,1 and the serial is SOMESRLNMBR.

 

Don't think its loading the file properly? How do I edit the plist to say whether to boot OSX or Windows?

 

Thanks

ver2go
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/Extras

 

Is where you keep your Themes, your kexts, and your com.apple.boot.plist. You can even add your strings to the file you keep there.

 

Extras get loaded before the ones in /System/Library/Extentions and the official boot.plist.

 

You add the following to the boot.plist for the drive you want to default load:

 

<key>Default Partition</key>

<string>hd(x,y)</string>

 

Check out the boot.txt with the chameleon pkg for more details.

 

Also look at the comments here:

http:// chameleon .osx86 .hu/articles/chameleon-20rc1-is-out

 

For more help.

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