Thanks for the information. To answer your question, I first got my MacPro to boot into Windows by changing the boot disk in System Preferences. I agree with you that the expected behavior is to keep booting into Windows until the boot disk in System Preferences is changed.
My complaint is that although the MacPro tries to boot into Windows, it seems to get stuck before Windows finishes booting. At that point, I power down and use the option key to boot into MacOS. The only way I found to successfully boot into Windows is to first boot into MacOS and then switch the boot disk to Windows. And this only works for one boot cycle -- if I try to reboot into Windows again, it hangs. Maybe I'll try zapping the PRAM. Is that still command-option-P-R? What do I lose by doing this? Do I lose a lot of settings and/or preferences? Thanks, Gregg -----Original Message----- From: Macs R We <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 1, 2018 at 3:53 PM To: "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" <[email protected]> Cc: "@lbutlr" <[email protected]>, Mac OS X-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: BootCamp troubles The question here is, how did you get it to boot into Windows in the first place? If you did it by changing the boot disk in System Preferences, then your first sentence is entirely proper operation. If you did it "temporarily" via the option key, then it shouldn't have gotten set permanently to Windows in System Preferences and it should be automatically booting into MacOS. All this stuff is stored in the PRAM, so maybe you can get rid of this misbehavior just by zapping the PRAM. It isn't a problem everybody else is seeing. > On Jan 1, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have only used Bootcamp a little, but I can confirm similar problems. > > In my case, after booting back into MacOS with the option key, if I restart > my Mac, it will try to boot into Windows again, unless I remember to go into > the Preferences app and change the boot disk to my MacOS disk. I say "try to > boot into Windows again" because it always seems to hang when trying to start > Windows after the first time. The only way that I have found to boot into > Windows (after once getting out of Windows) is to set the boot disk to my > MacOS disk, boot into MacOS, and then go back and change the boot disk to > Bootcamp. Only then will it successfully boot into Windows. > > I hardly ever do anything in Windows, but although it's a pain to > successfully boot into Windows, it seems to work fine (as far as I can tell) > after Windows boots. > > Gregg > > -----Original Message----- > From: "@lbutlr" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 11:54 AM > To: Mac OS X-Talk <[email protected]> > Subject: BootCamp troubles > > What is the "correct" way to switch from macOS to Windows using Bootcamp? > > If I set the startup disk in macOS to Windows and reboot, I get Windows as > expected. If I then use the bootcamp tray icon to "reboot to MacOS" I get > Windows again. The only way I see to get back to MacOS is to use the > option-boot to select the Mac partition. > > Option-boot does work, but it appears the BootCamp boot option in windows > doesn't do anything, so I suspect I am missing something? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
