Selecting right OS to boot

[Killerbob]

Hi,

I am new to Bootcamp, but have finally gotten it to work. The graphics drivers are still bugging me, but at least I have a work-around.

However, I do have a small irritation, which I am sure someone knows how to fix!

When in OSX, I can easily boot into Windows, using BootChamp. It works flawlessly. However, when in Windows 7, and I select "boot into Mac OS", Windows shuts down, but it does not select the right boot disk. I then have to hold down the Option key, select the right disk for OSX, and it boots fine

I have a Mac Pro with BAY1 - 1 HDD for Windows, BAY2 - 1 SSD for OSX, and BAY3 and BAY4 - 2 HDDs in Raid0.

How can I select the right Boot disk in Windows?

/Bo

 

[murphychris]

Terminal, copy paste this command, and paste the results back into the forum formated with code tags. To do that, highlight the pasted text, and click on the # button in the toolbar.

sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0

This is a read only command it doesn't modify anything.

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And if you haven't already tried it, you should zap PRAM (which clears NVRAM which might be the source of your trouble but if not it's either a partitioning problem or it might be a blessing problem).

Also provide the results from this command

bless --info

 

[Killerbob]

Hi,

You mention to use Terminal, but the problem is in Windows when I want to revert to Mac OSX.

In OSX, I use a small utility (BootChamp) to boot to Windows, and that works flawlessly. However, when in Windows, and I want to get back to OSX I use the Boot Camp icon in the taskbar to boot to OSX, and that doesn't work. Only if I enter preferences and select the OSX partition (which then is disk 3) and restart, will it work. I just do not understand why I have to enter the preferences every single time???

I can of course check it out in Terminal, but that's in OSX, after it has worked.

/Bo

 

[murphychris]

You mention to use Terminal, but the problem is in Windows when I want to revert to Mac OSX.

The problem doesn't manifest in Windows. It manifests at the bootloader stage. That points to either a bootloader, NVRAM, or partition issue.