bootloader question

[trini18]

I have successfully installed OS X 10.8.5 multiple times...when I press f8 to run the usb drive that I created with unibeast I see the following USB, Mac OS X and Windows NTFS...which is correct when I boot off the usb drive....Now when I finshed installing OS X and ready to do all the driver updates in multibeast I select easy beast and that installs fine....then I reboot... it does reboot automatically from the hdd and loads OS X but it boots right into it and doesn't prompt me to boot to my windows hdd.....in order to boot to my windows drive I need to boot off the usb drive....Can someone tell me how to fix this...this has been driving me crazy for the pass 2 days now...after multiple restalling I just cant get it to show my windows hdd on bootup

many thanks if you can help me out on this...

 

[RehabMan]

I have successfully installed OS X 10.8.5 multiple times...when I press f8 to run the usb drive that I created with unibeast I see the following USB, Mac OS X and Windows NTFS...which is correct when I boot off the usb drive....Now when I finshed installing OS X and ready to do all the driver updates in multibeast I select easy beast and that installs fine....then I reboot... it does reboot automatically from the hdd and loads OS X but it boots right into it and doesn't prompt me to boot to my windows hdd.....in order to boot to my windows drive I need to boot off the usb drive....Can someone tell me how to fix this...this has been driving me crazy for the pass 2 days now...after multiple restalling I just cant get it to show my windows hdd on bootup

many thanks if you can help me out on this...

Did you try pressing a key while the timer is running?

You know... where it says "Press any key to enter startup options."

 

[Robbish]

You need an Instant Menu, this is available with MultiBeast and is found under;

Customization > Boot Options > Instant Menu

however if you want to learn and experiment then locate your /Extra folder from your boot drive

locate the Org.Chameleon.Boot.Plist file and open this with TextEdit

locate the line that says <key>Timeout</key>

yours will probably looks like this;


<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>


But you need to change it to the below then save and exit, reboot and your Chimera boot screen should stay on screen displaying your drives/partitions;


<key>Timeout</key>
<string>Instant Menu</string>


http://www.tonymacx86.com/basics/104463-how-edit-plist.html

 

[trini18]

thanks a lot for your help...it works