Few issues. Very simple. A little help please?

[Risr]

1. I'm running on a Dell E1505 notebook. How come my battery doesn't come up in the menu bar?
   
2. When I boot it is set to boot to Tiger partition if nothing is done in 5 seconds. How can I change it to boot Leopard partition instead?
   
3. The only I can boot successfully is if I do it in verbose mode. I want my notebook to be perfect. How can I get the boot screen instead?
   

Any help is useful.

 

I'm running on BrazilMac. The very first release after the official release from Apple.

[BoBo]

If I recall correctly the battery issue can be fixed with the proper AppleSMBIOS.kext.

 

You should be able to change the active partition with fdisk.

 

you can add -v as a default flag in com.apple.boot.plist under the kernal flags string.