Crash4419 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeesfan811 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 I have the same problem..... when I hightlight vista on the darwin boot loader, it goes back to vista's boot loader! the only way i can boot to mac osx is by selecting macosx, then pressing a key in the darwin boat loader, then selecting mac osx AGAIN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meecrob87 Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I'm pretty sure there is no fix for this right now, but you can modify com.apple.Boot.plist to make the start up options come up automatically. You can look up more on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koshinn Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 If it helps, I have the exact opposite problem. If I use both boot managers, weird stuff like that happens, like Vista fails to boot regardless of what I do. And my Darwin Boot Manager defaults to OSX. If it helps, I installed Vista first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 The Video shows/says it all: http://blip.tv/file/309607/ My question is: How to I change the default Darwin choice to OSX instead of Vista? Is the quite boot setting the fix? Are these two partitions on the same drive? If so, which one is set to active? If it's Vista, then I think Darwin will see the active partition first. I believe it's motherboard dependent about having to press those extra keys. I'm dual booting with XP and if I highlight OSX, I have to quickly hit F8 to enter into Darwin and then press OSX again. I'm using a Bad Axe 2 mb. There are others with different MBs who don't have to go through that. I don't think there's a fix for it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio92 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I had problems with the boot but i fixed this so: I installed Windows Vista, Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu Linux and MacOSx86 on the four primary partitions of a 500 GB HD. Then I use GRUB as the boot loader. I have four entries on the grub menu: ubuntu, ubuntu recovery mode, windows loader, mac osx86. The WIndows loader entry seems this: title Windows Vista/XP loader root (hd0,0) makeactive savedefault boot My entry of OSx86 seems this: title Mac OS X root (hd0,3) makeactive savedefault boot and the 4 operating systems work fine! Long Life GRUB! It's important to set "makeactive" the windows entry and the mac osx86 entry. In my case, when I select "Windows loader", the vista loader appears and ask me if boot Vista or XP. No problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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