That sounds overly complicated to me. You can go into system preferences and set which os you want to boot into by default. If you want a different one, hold down the option key while powering on your machine. Then, hold down the option key for about 10-15 seconds. You will be in a list of things you can boot from. All you need to do, assuming your set-up is fairly basic, is arrow to the 1 you want. For example, if you boot into windows by default, you'd left arrow once to boot from your main mac OSX drive. Right arrow once would take you to the recovery partician. If you boot by default into OSX, pressing right arrow once will let you boot into windows, and pressing right arrow twice will take you to the recovery partician. One final note: after making your selection, you need to press enter. This method should work great, but to set whichever mode you want to be your default, system preferences and then startup disc would be your best bet. Good luck, and I hope this helps! Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: boot camp You might want to look at the Refit boot manager. Using this, I am able to simply press the power button without holding down anything, then press m for mac or w for windows a second after I hear the startup chime. I had sighted help installing this, and it was over a year ago so I don't remember the exact procedure, but google should be able to tell you more than you need to know. On Nov 5, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Chris Bruinenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > the only way i know how to do it is either virtualize it or reboot with > bootcamp. > You could do the startup option under system preferences. > Hope that helps. > > Chris Bruinenberg > [email protected] > > > > On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Wayne Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hello chris i meant when i was in the mac os is there a way to boot into >> windows thanks in advance >> Wayne Coles >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On 5 Nov 2012, at 12:04, Chris Bruinenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You can. >>> Just go to the system trey in bootcamp and select the bootcamp as the >>> startup disk. >>> >>> Chris Bruinenberg >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Wayne Coles <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> helo list i am running boot camp on a mbp 2012 and would like to >>>> know if it os possible to boot into windows without shutting down >>>> and then holding down the option key and then arrowing to the boot >>>> camp option so any help in this would be most appreciated Wayne >>>> Coles [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
