Problem with my pc

[Bass Creator]

OK i have a x86 pc NOT A MAC
when i boot up it says MICROSOFT WINDOWS BOOTLOADER
and i usaly go to mac os x x86 but some times iam not there so it auto goes to windows and i have like 3 sec and i cannt live with a with a screen saying microsoft windows soon ill get grub when i multi boot linux, windows, os x x86
but i dunno if i will live you mean it says microsoft

[bicostp]

You don't need GRUB, just do this to change the menu:

1. In Windows, right-click My Computer and select Properties
2. Click the Advanced tab, then the Startup and Recovery settings button
3a. (To force it to boot into OSX86) In the top drop-down menu, select the other system.
3b. (To make the menu appear longer) Change the number in the "Time to display list of operating systems" spinbox to something like 60. (60 will give you a minute to make a decision.)
4. OK out of all the properties windows.

That should let you do what you want. Believe me this is easier than changing the boot.ini file manually.

[bgnome]

err..

ok, i think you are trying to say that you have a multiboot system with mac os x and windows xp? what you need to do is set mac os x as the default os in the bootloader. Go to "System Properties" either from the Control Panel or through the right-click menu on "My Computer">"Properties". Then its "Advanced">"Startup and Recovery: Settings". Then you just click the "Edit" button and change the "Default" entry to match the OS X entry.

[Bass Creator]

bgnome omfg you live near my grand mother She always goes to collage station She lives in the country part of navasota

[Bibin]

Do you want help or are you trying to be offtopic?

Yes, if you modify boot.ini in your boot drive, you can specify the [illegal] OSX86 Boot.

[Bass Creator]

This is a joke i was making fun of microsoft quote Microsoft windows omfg i alrety modfid my boot.ini i said i hate microsoft and liked os x and linux

[atari2600a]

LOL, this is what my boot.ini looks like:

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[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 13374g3 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (unmodded kernel)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (small partition)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

[Bibin]

This is a joke i was making fun of microsoft quote Microsoft windows omfg i alrety modfid my boot.ini i said i hate microsoft and liked os x and linux

...I'm reffering to

bgnome omfg you live near my grand mother She always goes to collage station She lives in the country part of navasota

[Bass Creator]

link to modded kernel

[bicostp]

For most of my classes we have to use a removable hard drive (for running different OSes). After a few semesters of different classes needing different OSes its boot.ini file looks something like this:

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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro - Development" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pro - Sandbox" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect 
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(5)="Fedora Core 6" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect 

I kind of BS-ed the fedora line because I have no easy way of accessing the hard disk here. The "Development" install of XP is the only install that isn't a 180 day demo install. (With the obvious exception of Fedora Core.) Development is on a 20 gig partition, each of the other windows installs are on 5 gigs, Fedora is on 20 gigs, there's a 1 gig swap partition, a 10 gig common FAT32 shared partition, and the rest of the 80 gig HD is empty space for more operating systems.