craigolio Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I have successfully installed the JaS 10.4.8 w/ppf1 and w/Defiant Disk Util Fix.ppf to my brother's Acer Aspire 9410z laptop (which I got for $599 after rebate at Compusa last week!!) I am pleased to announce that it is dual booting OSX (with everything except for Sleep working) and the Vista install that came on the laptop. But there is one thing: I don't like the way the dual boot works. I am using the Vista boot loader, which gives a choice between Vista and OSX. When I choose "OSX", it loads up the Darwin bootloader. The Darwin bootloader, apparently, has the Vista partition set as 'default', so it immediately kicks me back to the Vista boot loader! So, I added <string>Timeout</string> <key>10</key> to my com.apple.Boot.plist Having done that, I now have time to read the Darwin Boot Loader screen as it says 'Press any key to change the boot options'. When I do so, Darwin shows both my Vista Partion and my OSX partition, and I have to hit the 'down arrow' on the keyboard to select the OSX partition and then it boots OSX great. So my question is: Is there something I could add to my com.apple.Boot.plist that would set the OSX partition as 'default', thereby allowing me to remove the 10-second pause and eliminate the need to essentially choose twice to boot OSX?? Thank you!! Craigolio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44868-question-on-darwin-bootloader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) This question has already been asked, so you might want to do a quick search for it. In the meantime, I can tell you what I remember: There is a switch you can add to your Boot.plist file to set the default partition to boot, for example: <key>Kernel Flags</key> (I am not 100% sure that "Kernel Flag" is the correct parameter here) <string>rd=disk0s1</string> You will need to use disktutil to find out the right parameter for rd. Check below. But I remember people saying that this would not fix the dual boot problem. I haven't tried it myself yet, so I can't confirm that. It was also said, that the darwin bootloader would default to any partition set to active. This can be easily done by calling: diskutil list (to identify your HDDs and the partition you need) and then sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk# (replace # by the correct drive number!) p (to view partitions) f # (replace # with correct drive number) write (answer yes to question) you can then exit and reboot. Check this great page for more info on the darwin bootloader: http://neonkoala.co.uk/content/view/33/34/ Post back if you have any problems, hecker Edited March 11, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44868-question-on-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-321175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxonmylaptop Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Watch out, I put rd=disk0s2 (where my xp is) and Darwin tries to look for a boot image on my XP partition, so this is wrong. I had to boot with rd=disk0s3 (where macos is) to correct my com.apple.Boot.plist Just wanted to share my experience. Bye. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44868-question-on-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-342703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yidakee Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Hi Well... on installing succesfully El Tigre, Xp wont boot anymore, it just hangs a blinking cursor top left corner. No disk activity, no error message... nothing Please please please... it would be my 7th full blown re-install. All this due to me helping in driver development and crashing my system, being fairly new to Darwin... I am at my wit's end! anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44868-question-on-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-348025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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