Best way to change boot drive remotely?

[raygan]

I use LogMeIn, VNC, and SSH pretty extensively, and I also dual-boot Windows 7 and Mountain Lion.

With my "real" Mac I would switch back and forth remotely, by either choosing a boot drive in System Preferences, or using BootChamp. With my Hackintosh, I haven't yet figured out a way to remotely reboot into Windows or back to Mountain Lion.

From Mountain Lion, it looks like I could edit the org.chameleon.plist to change the default, and I could probably automate that with a script, but then I'm not sure I'd be able to change back to ML from Windows remotely.

Does anybody have a recommendation or best practices for something like that?

Thanks!

 

[snugglez64]

Interesting.. If you come up with a solution would you please post back.

Right now I just login to OS X remotely and the start VMWare to boot my windows install via Boot Camp .. not all that effective but "works"

 

[raygan]

Well, what I've got so far is that I've created two versions of my boot file in Extras, one which defaults to OSX and one which defaults to Windows, and I just rename one or the other of them before rebooting so that it uses the appropriate file. That seems to work pretty well.

It did require that I install that Paragon Software HFS+ driver for Windows in order to be able to access that file while booted into Windows. That's a $20 download purchase; right now I'm in my evaluation period. If I don't come up with a better method before it expires I will probably purchase a copy. It's working better than I expected, actually.

Eventually I'd like to script this so that I don't have to do all that manually each time I reboot. I could write a shell script to do it from the OS X side, but I'm not sure how I would do it while booted into Windows.