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Can BootPicker be used for dual-booting Mac/XP?


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Just saw this at the Bombich software site and was wondering if anyone has used it to dual-boot a Hackintosh / XP system:

 

http://www.bombich.com/software/bootpicker.html

 

"BootPicker runs on startup immediately prior to LoginWindow. Based upon your configuration, it presents an option to the end user to choose an operating system. Upon choosing that OS, the machine either continues to Mac OS X or reboots to the specified OS. The next time the computer is rebooted, it automatically returns to Mac OS X and the boot picker. Finally, for environments that require management at a large scale, or management while the machines are turned off or booted to a different OS, BootPicker can be managed via a Mac OS X Server Open Directory Master. Got AD? That's OK, you can leverage that as well. You can even run BootPicker from a logout script to give every new visitor to your lab machines the opportunity to choose their OS without rebooting."

 

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this is my problem with it.......

 

With DARWIN you choose as the system boots up, where you want to go! i know "IT AIN'T PRETTY" but this:

 

"BootPicker runs on startup immediately prior to LoginWindow. Based upon your configuration, it presents an option to the end user to choose an operating system. Upon choosing that OS, the machine either continues to Mac OS X or reboots to the specified OS"

 

This means the machine boot TWICE!!

 

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Just saw this at the Bombich software site and was wondering if anyone has used it to dual-boot a Hackintosh / XP system:

 

http://www.bombich.com/software/bootpicker.html

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BootPicker is free as in beer and free as in speech. That means there's no charge to use it and even the source code is available. If you'd like to tweak, modify, localize, or just peek at the source code to BootPicker, you can browse the source here or download via subversion as indicated at the Bombich Software Sourcecode Repository.

 

- 'you can browse the source here' leads you at a page where BootPicker source code is missing.

- Bombich Software Sourcecode Repository doesn't contains BootPicker source code.

 

Does someone has the source code and can upload it?

 

Thanks in advance.

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I would like to be able to tell the machine which OS to load on reboot, because I do a lot of work from VNC. If I could select the OS to boot 'next time' and automatically return to OSX afterwards, that would work really well for me...

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I'd much rather see someone try to get rEFIt working with chameleon instead. Granted, that means booting vista or xp from an EFI emulator, which would become its own fun little challenge. but it seems to be a bit more reasonable than booting twice.

Part of the mac's finesse is the interface's polish. I would love to get my pc to do its boot cycle, load the EFI partition and then feel like a mac from there on.

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