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TESEV

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Original poster
Jun 1, 2006
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New Orleans, LA
I've been looking around for an easier way to boot into windows without having to hold down the option key and found this nifty-looking AppleScript:

http://www.macinstruct.com/node/129
AppleScript said:
do shell script "bless -mount /Volumes/Windows/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly" password "XXXXXXX" with administrator privileges
do shell script "shutdown -r now" password "XXXXXXX" with administrator privileges

I don't use the password part but thought other people might be interested in it.

Now, it's not working for me, and that's probably because I'm a tinkerer. My Windoze partition isn't called Windows (I call it "pie_hell") so I have to change the path to "/Volumes/pie_hell/". It restarts without complaining but boots into Mac OS X; I would have thought it difficult to confuse pie_hell with pie_heaven ;)
Also, I've got a Firmware Password set if that means anything to anyone.

When I go to System Preferences>Startup Disk and tell it to boot there it works perfectly.
 
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