I'm not sure how Refit is complicated. Pressing one button seems much more straightforward than holding a key for fifteen seconds, arrowing and not being able to be sure which drive you are on, and pressing enter. The setup process was not complicated, as I recall; I mostly had a sighted person help because it was only my second day with a mac and I was not sure what I was doing with it. I still have the refit dmg if you can't find it. On Nov 5, 2012, at 4:38 PM, "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > 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. 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