Mikie G Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I have a Kalyway 10.5.1/WinXP dual boot installation that works great. OSX is the default boot in the OSX boot loader, and I can choose winXP at bootup. How do I change the default boot OS? I would like it to be WinXP. cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merel Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I want to do exactly the same, plz help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/#findComment-619089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Philippe Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I doubt you can do this. OSX boot loader allow you to boot Windows, but I don't think Windows boot loader allows the same thing. Thats why you have to put OSX boot loader first place. Sorry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/#findComment-619113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikie G Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Is there not registry change that can do this? WinXP comes up as the first boot choice, but the default is OSX. Any one else care to comment? cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/#findComment-620991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
potuz Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Is there not registry change that can do this? WinXP comes up as the first boot choice, but the default is OSX. Any one else care to comment? cheers I'm in the same train, I don't think Jean-Phillipe answer's correct, we don't want to boot into Windows Bootloader, rather we want to have Darwin's bootloader pick Vista's partition by default.... I haven't tried passing rdiskXsY as a Kernel flag in com.apple.Boot.plist, if someone here wants to try that, let me know if it works. P. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/#findComment-702018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
candykane Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 you could just select the windows drive in the bios to be the 1st drive to boot. and if you want to boot osx with my asus its hitting F8 durion bios boot it gives me a list of drive i can select the one i want to boot. this way you never have to use boot loaders. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87085-change-default-boot-from-osx-to-winxp-kalyway-1051-efi/#findComment-702055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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