Did not set up doal boot before installing...oops

[sdelano]

Okay, so I downloaded the JaS 10.4.7 DVD and tried installing it with VMWare but that wasn't working at all. So I figured I would judt install it on a free partition by booting off the DVD. That worked great except for one thing. I didn't edit any boot settings anywhere or setup a dual boot setup at all.

 

Now when I reboot the computer, nothing will boot. The only thing I can do is boot with the OSX DVD, and reinstall and then it will boot into OSX only once. The first time I installed OSX I had access to my windows root hard drive, the second time I had access to my other hard drive. Only one at a time though...never both. I have them both set up on SATA.

 

The OSX partition is on the same hard drive as the XP partition as well.

 

Is there anything I can do from here to make the computer dual boot?

 

Thanks,

Stephen

[Rammjet]

Set your OSX partition "active" (bootable): http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844

 

Setting the timeout parameter will force the Darwin (OSX) bootloader to appear.

Boot into OSX.

 

Edit the boot.plist file at "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist" and add the following:

 

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

 

You can edit the file by dragging it to the Desktop and editing it with TextEdit, then dragging it back, answering the 2 resulting dialogs - Authenticate and yes to replace, then followed by using Disk Utility to repair permissions on the OSX partition.

 

Or you can do it via Terminal with this command:

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

[sdelano]

So setting the partition to active didn't work. But if I stick the install dvd and don't press anything then I can boot to osx just fine. I dont know what the deal is with the HDD's either because last time I booted, they all showed up and now only 2 of the 3 show up...the Windows partition in missing.. grr