cloudstrife87 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Hi, i just got my hands on the iATKOS 1.0i DVD, and i'm planning to install on my Compaq Presario v3500 laptop with vista already installed on it. But before that, i would like to ask, is there any method to set Vista as the default os after installing iATKOS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddrdark Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Sure, You have to set the win partition with the "boot" flag. Use gparted o fdisk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudstrife87 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 ooo ddrdark, you mean by setting the vista partition as the default booting partition?? But if i do that, can i boot back into leopard next time?? Coz i afraid that my vista bootloader does not recognize my leopard partition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rl1024 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 you will have to add the entry to your vista bootloader. easy way is to use easybcd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David86 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 set leopard to primary active, i used acronis disk director. Darwin boot loader will by default boot the primary active partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 if u were planning to use darwins 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" all this will of course be done in the com.apple.Boot.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudstrife87 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 rl1024: But i've surfed around the net and they said that easybcd doesnt recognize the leopard partition: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...136&t=69224 http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1384 david86: Hi, you mean using Acronis OS Selector like this???: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=81865# mtotho: ooo you mean by setting the "<key>Kernel Flags</key>" and "<string>rd=diskXsY</string>" in com.apple.Boot.plist to my vista partition, darwin will boot vista by default??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Cloud, this is the title of your thread Vista as default os in Darwin bootloader? I was the only person who actually gave you a solution. @Radx, the comp i got that from does not use darwin bootloader to boot between.. but is identical to one (other than maxmem string) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>maxmem=3074 </string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>1</string> </dict> </plist> make sure you have the time out key and string Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudstrife87 Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 ooo haha, you are right mtotho, i've forgotten of what im asking initially. Anyway, i ll try to install the leopard next weekend, i ll post it here whether it works or not, wish me luck man....thanks everyone for the advises especially you mtotho ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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