XP & OSX Boot issue

[MNCRXSi]

OK, I have XP installed and haven't had aproblem up until now w/ the Mac boot loader, I just did a fresh install of 10.4.6 OSX and it for some reason removed the option of me booting into Windows now, What do I need to do to get OSX to boot into Windows again? when I go to system pref. and go to start up disk it used to show my Windows partition there, now it just shows Network boot.

 

Please help.

[MNCRXSi]

Well I got into windows, if I press F8 before it says Loading Darwin X86, I can get into windows. Is there a time field I can edit?

[Guest BuildSmart]

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

 

add:

	<key>Timeout</key>
<String>11</string>

[MNCRXSi]

I assumeI can just add that anywhere?

[Rammjet]

If the file already contains a Timeout parameter, just change the existing one to the value - which is the number of seconds to display the menu before booting OSX.

 

If the parameter is not already in the file, then just add the two lines to the bottom, but keep the indenting the same as the other parameters in the file.

[MNCRXSi]

OK Thanks!

 

It went stright to OS X

 

 

Here is my file

 

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

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

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<String>11</string>

</dict>

</plist>

[Rammjet]

I'm guessing that <String>11</string> should be <string>11</string> (lower case s)

[MNCRXSi]

Thanks Rammjet! YOu were correct! I didn't realize caps made a difference.

 

Thanks again!

[Guest BuildSmart]

A simple glance at the file before adding the entry and you should have been able to determine the proper syntax and you would have caught the capitalization error yourself.

 

You got it working was the main goal so enjoy.