rename windows volume in boot camp startup menu

[piku9000]

Hello!

This is my first post here... even though, I've read a lot of the things on this forum, but never decided to post a question 'til now... now that i bought a macbook pro that is.

Actually I have some sort of annoyance with boot camp. It works as it's intended (with windows 7, which is a miracle, because everyone complains about that combination). But whenever I boot up and press "alt" to select the hard drive i want to boot, it always shows Windows. Can i change it for something else? and, how can I do it? Both of my partitions have names of their own... they're not generic... but still, they are not working, what can I do??

 

[gugucom]

The boot screen is actually provided by the EFI firmware. It tends to call anything non OS X simply Windows. Its Apple short speak for "old crapy legacy file system, potentially bootable". EFI does not care how the partition is called in OS X or Windows.

If you want a more fancy boot manager GUI you can try rEFIt. Its free and has some fringe bennies on top of nicer graphics.

 

[piku9000]

i'm not quite sure on installing another firmware on top of efi, and rEFIt is on beta or something... but it's not a 1.0 version either... i guess i'll have to live with that Windows thing annoying me then, thanks!

 

[lucifiel]

i'm not quite sure on installing another firmware on top of efi, and rEFIt is on beta or something... but it's not a 1.0 version either... i guess i'll have to live with that Windows thing annoying me then, thanks!

yeh, but rEFIT is actually fairly reliable even despite the beta stage.

well if you don't want to use it, you don't want to use it

 

[piku9000]

i know, but there are some bugs that make you boot straight to osx... and plus i do development on windows (.net and all that stuff) i can't risk being jammed out of boot camp, thanks anyway