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
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.
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.