Darwin BootLoader

[rstensho]

What I mean is:

On the OS options:

For example:

OSX

Windows NTFS

 

Can i change these to say something else?

And, Can i change which one it will boot by default?

 

I already have a timeout in com.apple.boot.plist, but i would like to default to windows(this is my work laptop)

 

I've tried searching, but keep seeing regular boot options.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this....

[Neonkoala]

http://neonkoala.co.uk/content/view/33/34/

 

But to do what you want you should try editing com.apple.boot.plist with the following to set a default:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>rd=disk?s?</sting>

 

Replacing the first ? with the number of you drive, 1st drive is 0 and 2nd is 1 and so on, and the second ? with the partition, 0 is mbr so never this, 1 is first partition, 2 is 2nd and so on.

[rstensho]

Cool, so i can put for example rd=disk0s2 this will cause it to boot Vista by default? Nice.

 

Now, is it possible to change the names of the OS's that show up in the bootloader?

For example: change WIndows NTFS to "Vista" ?

 

Thanks in advance

[rstensho]

*bump*

[Neonkoala]

There is very little documentation around the bootloader and as far as I nkow there is currently no means to change the names of the partitions. I think you're out of luck, you could try something like GRUB instead as your bootloader.