Darwin boot loader issue

[Drefsab]

Hi guys im having an issue with my dual boot setup.

 

I had vista already so I shrank the partition and installed osx on a 2nd partition on the main drive. I did the chain0 and vista boot loader and thats all working great so I get a choice of vista or osx at boot.

 

When I choose osx it just kicks be back the the vista bootloader instead of showing the darwin one. So if I press f8 when choosing osx I get the darwin choice, im guessing its trying to boot the vista by default, if I select the osx parition from the darwin loader it works perfectly.

 

So I tried to change the default by editing my com.apple.Boot.plist file from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

 

I tried to change it to

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//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>rd=disk0s2</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

I rebooted but had there same issue so I put in

 

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

 

this gave me the option to press a key which then lets me choose the right partition but the default still seams to goto the vista one if I let it time out.

 

I've double checked that my osx partition is disk0s2 from the disk utility. So im kind of stumped, if anyone could help point me in the right direction id greatly apreciate it.

[Drefsab]

*bump*

 

Im still having this issue and havent been able to find out where im going wrong or how to fix it, does anyone have even any ideas as to why this is happening?

[zuz_242]

i got the same issue, though i dont mind having to choose twice.

but im interested in the solution to make the osx partition the default system in the darwin bootloader.

[pnoytechie]

GUID Partition?

 

If you're on a GUID partion and you're using the chain0 file, it wouldn't work.

[runganwt]

This happen because when you "Chain0" to Darwin Bootloader, system will set cursor at your vista partition choice. It was happen to me too so I try to re-partition then set OSX in first and Vista in second. Then Vala.... it's working like a charm.

 

Hope you can do that if you willing to re-install everything again like I did...... Do not take my procedure as final choice....Do it with your own risk..... You have been warned....