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How can the boot order be changed? Currently, unless I hold down Option at start up, my MBP boots into XP. Can this be changed to boot into OSX by default?
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Yep. From either OS X or Windows, use the Startup Disk application (in System Preferences or the Windows Control Panel). The one you select is the default boot OS. Boot Camp does make Windows the default OS for some reason, but obviously that's no big deal.
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Well, if Boot Camp Utility didn't set your computer to boot into Windows, people would be wondering what happened when Boot Camp Utility asks them to reboot and they come back into OS X.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay 
Well, if Boot Camp Utility didn't set your computer to boot into Windows, people would be wondering what happened when Boot Camp Utility asks them to reboot and they come back into OS X.
Excellent point, but it would be nice if that were obvious. Check back through this forum - a LOT of people have been surprised by this, and a simple notice during installation (at least one that is noticable; I never saw anything like this) would have been a good thing.
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Yeah, I guess so when so many people seem to be confused by it. I'm kind of surprised though about it. I'd think the people that are going to use Boot Camp are not your typical user but a more advanced user. I'd think they'd know about something as simple as checking the startup disk preference. It isn't a new concept to Macs. Macs have always had (well at least back to System 7.5 afaik) a startup disk setting.
Btw, I just checked and it does mention this in the FAQ on the Boot Camp website and in the guide that you download with it.
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The 27 pages of instructions you are meant to read before installing, and running, Bootcamp is very clear on the whole boot order issue, and how to change from both systems.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by elwood58
The 27 pages of instructions you are meant to read before installing, and running, Bootcamp is very clear on the whole boot order issue, and how to change from both systems.
It just doesn't point out the fact that you'll be set to boot Windows ON SCREEN. Frankly, a lot of people don't read every word of the documentation on a whole lot of things, so I'd have expected Apple to have just pointed this out in the on-screen prompts, or at least in the step-by-step section. Or on page 17, it would have been really useful for them to say "The installation process leave Windows as your default boot up operating system." as the first sentence.
It's not a "problem" so much as a sign that both the software and documentation are beta.
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