Eds89 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 hi, ive just managed to edit my vista bootloader to pick between booting vista or OSX, but the odd thing is, that when i select OSX, it goes to darwin, where it asks me to press a key to enter advanced startup options, and if i leave it, it takes me back to the vista boot loader, as vista is the first choice in darwin, whichs means i have to enter advanced options in darwin each time and go down to OSX. its only a slight inconvenience, but does anyone know of a way to swap which option comes first in darwin, or to remove vista from darwin completely? thanks P.S, id also like to know if anyone knows a working driver for mobility x1300, as the ones i have tried either cause the monitor to enter sleep mode, or for OSX to hang when starting up! and finally a keyboard driver that lets me use other keys like delete, or the windows logo as the control key or whatever! thanks Eds Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eds89 Posted September 8, 2007 Author Share Posted September 8, 2007 just a quick update to this, even though i now have OSX on the first partition, the default OS in darwin is vista, even though it is below OSX. still what i feel to be a simple question, how do i get darwin to autoboot OSX and not vista, thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-444542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arhopkins3 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 you need to edit your apple com.plist file to get the vista installtion to be the secondary partition at startup Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-445902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilhelmmm Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 you need to edit your apple com.plist file to get the vista installtion to be the secondary partition at startup What and where do I write in apple com.plist to achieve that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-503481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Wiki - Tips And Tricks: #10 Messing with the boot options Browse to/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and open it up in your text editor- You can add some switches in here to make your life a little bit sweeter... HINT: If you are having difficulty saving changes to com.apple.Boot.plist; Open Terminal and type: sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist I think you need to look at: To set Darwin to boot from a particular partition:<key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>rd=diskXsY</string> Where X is your hard drive number and Y is the partition number (BSD naming scheme) if you are unsure about the rd value open Aplications>Utilities>Disk Utiliy, click on the partition with OSX installed and click on info, the right "rd" value is the value from "Disk Identifier" Sorry I've never used it before. You could also you Vistas bootloader and use Easy BCD to to alter the Vista boot loader and can add and remove OS entries. You could also go with GRUB bootloader by installing linux. Finally you could go with Acronis bootloader. These all allow you to change boot order. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-504209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilhelmmm Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Wiki - Tips And Tricks: #10 Messing with the boot options I think you need to look at: Sorry I've never used it before. You could also you Vistas bootloader and use Easy BCD to to alter the Vista boot loader and can add and remove OS entries. You could also go with GRUB bootloader by installing linux. Finally you could go with Acronis bootloader. These all allow you to change boot order. thanks a lot for the wiki link very good. I have OSX on disk0s2... What is suppose to happen when I put the "rd=disk0s2" flag. nothin happens to the boot order. windows is still the first boot option in darwin boot loader. I wish it could be osx.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-504890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Just a comment. I have tried that before and it doesn't work for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-507612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 yeah, that trick doesn't seem to work... make sure the desired partition is active? sorry if that's too obvious. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-507675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 yeah, that trick doesn't seem to work... make sure the desired partition is active? sorry if that's too obvious. Agree! For originator, you have to go to mac os, in terminal sudo -s fdisk -e /dev/disk0 f 2 w q then reboot your system... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62741-change-darwin-boot-order/#findComment-512812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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