3vilution Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Hey i finally got leopard installed and booted, but i have 2 partitions one with tiger and one with leopard right now, tiger is booting without me having to hold f8 down and manually selecting it unlike leopard which i have to press f8 each time i want to boot to it. How do i change to boot to leopard instead of tiger? THANKS!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobullone Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Try EasyBCD. You install it into Windows and configure your 2 partitions. It will set up the Windows Bootloader when the machine starts up and you can choose between the operating systems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-516629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Get partedmagic.iso burn it to a cd boot from it and add the boot flag to the leopard partition. Keep that cd it will come in hand in your OSx86 Journeys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-516781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 Ok i tried partedmagic and set the flag to leopard but then i restarted and it just sat there blinking cursor and then i booted off dvd again and changed it back to tiger and it booted back to tiger, so i dont know what the problem is. Is there something in tiger that i have to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risr Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I'm having the same exact problem... We need the Tiger Bootloader for Leopard to boot. Just how do we set the default boot to Leopard instead of Tiger? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I'm having the same exact problem... We need the Tiger Bootloader for Leopard to boot. Just how do we set the default boot to Leopard instead of Tiger? Try downloading my boot pack, drag the folder to root of the leopard drive. then go in to single user mode under leopard. by doing this under boot options rd=disk0s2 -s replacing 0s2 with where your leopard is, or if you have a leopard option from the boot menu move the selector to that then type -s. let it do its thing. then type. cd /bootpack <enter> ./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s2 (replace 0s2 to where your leopard drive is) ./booti386 it should say Found hfs+ writting blah blah. there you go. http://rapidshare.com/files/72029595/bootpack.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risr Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I'm not sure I understand. Shouldn't there be an easier way like (excuse me for bring MS into this) in the MS Bootloader. Just tell it to boot my disk1s3 default. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 I'm not sure I understand. Shouldn't there be an easier way like (excuse me for bring MS into this) in the MS Bootloader. Just tell it to boot my disk1s3 default. you could go in to leopard system preferences, click startup disk and select the leopard partiton, but no disks show up because it requires a GUID partition and real EFI. The way i said is the only way to do it.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 it didnt work for me i am me, it just says partition could not be cleanly unmounted Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-517594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risr Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I didn't even get that far... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73050-how-do-i-set-leopard-to-boot-primarily/#findComment-518117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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