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    Setting up Dual Boot

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by xbandaidx, Nov 17, 2006.

  1. xbandaidx

    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    Well, I finally bit the nail and decided to install boot camp so I can have Windows XP on my system and play this one game thats coming out soon (its not graphic intensive game so I'm not worried about performance).

    Anyways, does anyone know where I can set the computer to Boot into OS X by default? I don't like having to hit option key everytime to boot into my OS X, which I mainly use, I rather have it the other way around.

    Thanks
     
    xbandaidx, Nov 17, 2006
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    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    Well, I figured it out. It was a rather weird way, and definitely not something you'd think of.

    For future reference I will post how I did it.

    Go to System Preferences, click Startup Disk. Now just looking at it you don't see anything about setting what OS boots by default, so this is what you do. Hit the lock icon and enter your password. Now the two partitions are not dimmed anymore. When I looked at this I saw that Windows partition was highlighted, so I just highlighted the OS X partition and locked it up. ::NOTE:: I did NOT click the restart button located there. I did it the normal way and lo and behold my MacBook is now booting into OS X by default.

    Anyways, the point is, this was definitely not intuitive in my opinion, and having just a drive simply being highlighted solves that issue. Very weird implementation if you ask me.

    Cheers
     
    xbandaidx, Nov 18, 2006
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  3. easyeye

    easyeye Notebook Consultant

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    yup, it's that simple
     
    easyeye, Nov 22, 2006
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