macintoshy Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Hello, I am using a 80 GB SATA drive (Maxtor 6Y080M0) with two partitions. Both partitions have the same size and I use the first partition to boot from normaly and the second one as a backup media for the first partition. When a mirror my first to the second partition, my darwin bootloader always starts up by using the backup partition not my first one. Press F8 during boot sequence is the only way get my first partition started. When I try to change my startup disk in system preferences I cannot find any seletectable drive/volume to boot from. Is there any trick to make my JAS based 10.4.7 installed OS visible in startup disks in system preferences? How do I force the darwin bootloader to pick up my first partition permanentely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 Don't use Startup Disk. It can corrupt your partitions and require a reinstall. Unfortunately, I don't have and answer to how to set the default in Darwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintoshy Posted August 4, 2006 Author Share Posted August 4, 2006 Hi, seems that my boot problem is solved. When I make a 10 s timeout in my boot.plist, my most wantet partition now boots perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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