Boot to Bootcamp fro Snow Leopard ?

A little while ago I read where someone had written a short app with an icon/button on the Snowleopard screen and another on the bootcamp screen that could click on to boot either way. Now I could use it, I can't find it. Can anyone point me to it or know how to do it, please ?

In Windows there is a Notifications area (where the clock is) icon for Boot Camp and if you click on it there is an option to Restart in OS X.
As for something similar in OS X maybe you could write a script to open Sys Prefs, Startup Disk, Select the Windows partitions and Reboot/Restart the system, Twice selecting Restart as OS X doesn't think their users know what they are doing so it always asks the same question twice.
Like when you agree to a program License during install. Another window drops down asking "Agree", "Disagree".

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Mac os X wont boot up, im running snow leopard.

My 27 inch iMac wont boot, i am runnign snow leopard. I just see the apple sign and the cycle spinning meaning its still loading. I cant use disk utility because leopard install disc wont boot, also i cant run any commands in single user mode, doing /sbin/fsck -fy does nothing, i dont see a # sign or anything, whatever i type it doesnt matter whenever i hit return the cursor just goes to the line below.

Your Leopard discs are useless, since this machine shipped with Snow Leopard. Boot the machine with the disc that came with it and run Disk Utility from there. Since you say it's new, call AppleCare and let them fix things if you're unable to start it up.

Windows 8.1 on Bootcamp for Snow Leopard?

I was operating Windows 7 Ulitmate via Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro Snow Leopard (I think? - I got the computer during the summer of 2010). I recently was forced to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and did so through the upgrade on the Windows website. The install went fine - yet I noticed that the Mac keyboard doesn't work when in Windows. For example, my volume keys are treated as the F10, F11, F12. Same for screen brightness, etc. I also don't think the double click for right click works.
I'm not as tech savy as some others on here but I do understand this to be a driver issue. Are there any updates that I can install to correct these issues? I know there is Bootcamp 5 but I don't think that applies to Snow Leopard? .... Help?

I tried downloading the Microsoft support software via the boot camp assistant but I recieved a message saying there were no drivers to be found.
I thought of just trying to download the Bootcamp 5 drivers from Apple (meant for x64bit, Windows 8) to see if that would do anything, but since I'm using x32bit it probably will be useless.
I'm trying the bootcamp 4 to see if that will work.
If this all fails, what are my options? Do you know of where I might find drivers meant for 8.1 (I heard some talk about an official driver release)

Macbook pro 6,2 doesn't boot in to retail snow leopard disk.

Hey everyone I got a little problem here, see I need to restore my macbook because I need to run windows in order to update my Blackberry. Bootcamp won't let me partition my drive because some files can't be moved, I did a time machine back up and I was ready for a restore. One problem the Mac OS X recovery disk that came with the macbook are lost in space some where, I did however get a retail copy from a buddy of mine. I popped it in held down the C key, apple logo came up, but no spinning wheel at the bottom. Anyone know around this?
Thanks - Mark

Pondini has identified the problem: There is no retail OS X disc that can boot a MBP 6,2. The machine requires a newer build of the OS than the most recent Snow Leopard retail disc contains. You'll need to order a replacement for the installer disc that came with your computer:
Apple Customer Relations 1-800-767-2775
Oops, I see you're in Canada. Call AppleCare and ask about replacement discs.
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Windows 7, Boot Camp version and Snow Leopard?

Hi folks, I have a 2009 quad Mac and recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. The questions I have are:
Was the upgrade to Boot Camp 3 automatic?
If not what do I need to do to upgrade that?
How do I tell which version of Boot Camp I have?
Is the update for Boot Camp yet ready for Win 7? I read that an announcement was made yesterday of an update, but not sure it was released.
I wouldn't dare install Win 7 on my old XP PC Laptop, but I need to check web pages for my design work, and looks like Win 7 may become the standard as opposed to Vista on newer PCs.
I am also running Parallels 4, don't know if updating bootcamp will mess up that install... or functionality.

Okay, Boot Camp assistant, I get. I guess I was mistaken about the meaning of Boot Camp? When I boot into Windows on the installed XP system in my computer on its own partition, is Boot Camp involved in any way like an operating system or software platform foundation like DOS allowing Windows to operate, or is Boot Camp just for setting up a partition in the first place? I guess I'm wondering why Boot Camp Assistant 3 needs to be upgraded to allow the install Win 7, if I could just boot into Windows and run the upgrade in Windows? Does that make sense why I'm asking the questions?

Chkdsk run everytime I start Windows Vista under Bootcamp in Snow Leopard

I have Windows Vista 32 bits installed on bootcamp partition and it work fine in 10.5.
Now I have upgrade my MBP (early 2008) to Snow Leopard, and upgrade WIndows Bootcamp drivers to version 3.0 from Snow Leopard DVD. Both installation were completed and run fine.
The problem I have now is: Whenever I used Mac OS, shut down, then restart the WIndows Vista by pressing Option key at Macbook Pro startup, Chkdsk will run evry time, checking integrity of the Windows boot partition. I have to wait for more than 20 minutes before Chkdsk fix all errors, then reboot, and press Options key to get back into WIndows Vista without Chkdsk running.
When I shut down Windows, and restart without goinb into Snow Leoprad, the boot process go OK without Chkdsk running.
But whenever I shut fown Winodws and use Snow Leopard, then get back in to startup Windows, Chdsk run again. This is very annoyingm, and never occured in 10.5
During Chkdsk session, the following errors occured and being fixed:
Deleting index entry ._501 in index $I30 of file 9028
Deleting index entry 501 in index $I30 of file 9028
and after all process finished, Chkdsk stated that: There is a blank space that allocated as used, and has been fixed.
Can any friend advise me what cause this problem? and How to correct it?
I understanfd that the ._501 is in .Trashes folder on Windows partiton. It must be altered wwhen I use Snow Leopard, and must have to do with Trash in Mac OSX 10.6.
Can any friend advise me how to solve this problem? Thank in advance

I had the same problem and was reasonably confident that the disc was actually okay and did not benefit from repeated checking. You can instruct Windows on boot to ignore a drive by typing in the following command after boot into a command window chkntfs /x c:
In the case above c: is the drive letter Windows is booting to. If there really is a serious issue that chkdsk is identifying and trying to fix for you this may not be the way to go. However if this helps you can always run chkdsk manually from time to time to verify that the disc is still okay.
SL also created this problem for me. After that and a host of other issues that I did not have the time or patience to to battle with I reinstalled Leopard and have been happy with the decision.

Installing vista with bootcamp in snow leopard

I can install snow leopard clean on a fresh drive on my MBP with my upgrade disk.
It is the disk that came as a drop-in dvd with the MBP, along with its original install disks.
If I install windows vista using bootcamp assistant on my MBP running snow leopard, do I use that disk when it asks for the drivers, etc. during installation?
Or do I use my leopard install disks that came with my computer?
Is the snow leopard bootcamp process any different from the process in leopard?
I had windows Vista on the MBP fine before upgrading my hard drive and going to snow leopard.
Do I need to print out those 25 pages of instruction again?
Thanks for any advice.

Because you are asking I would read the FAQ guide, again.
On a Mac while installing, it doesn't allow or ask/prompt for installer disc (some people put things like that on a flash memory card). You do, after the install is done, need to insert your OS X DVD.
Snow Leopard has Boot Camp 3.0, I'd use that instead of the older 2.0x from Leopard.
No different, just about the same with the HFS+ read ability added (which causes some but not everyone to sometimes have BSOD or other problems, or maybe you don't even WANT Windows to be able to access and read Mac HFS+ volumes).
When upgrading a hard drive, make an image of the Windows partition with WinClone to restore - would have been good timing to upgrade to Windows 7, personally.

A late 2007 Mac Pro (2,1) no longer boots into 64-bit Snow Leopard

In Snow Leopard 10.6.7, my late 2007 Mac Pro (2,1/3.0 GHz/Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon) no longer seems to be booting into 64-bit mode. I've tried holding down the 6 and 4 keys during startup and even used a Terminal sudo command to force the machine to always boot into 64-bit mode. No matter what I try, an About This Mac>More Info>Software check only reports the following:
     64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
Before I upgraded from Leopard 10.5 to Snow Leopard 10.6, I carefully researched this, and this Mac Pro model specifically was listed by Apple as being capable of 64-bit booting — meaning that it would utilize at least some extra memory. At the time, under OS 10.5 and early versions of 10.6, when I used this Terminal command...
     ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
...my Mac Pro 2,1 returned this response:
     "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">
As a result of my tests and research, I upgraded the installed SDRAM from 4MB to the theoretical maximum Apple indicated this model could support (16MB) so that Adobe Photoshop 12 (CS 5) would fully utilize extra installed memory under Snow Leopard. While using the first versions of 10.6 Snow Leopard, the machine worked fine in 64-bit mode. Now, in the wake of the 10.6.6 or the 10.6.7 update (I didn't notice which), I find that this model no longer even reports itself as being 64-bit capable, though it once did.
Now, the aforementioned Terminal query returns this response:
      "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32">
Also, the Library>Preferences folder does even not contain a file called "com.apple.boot.plist," which some owners have reported editing to force 64-bit booting.
The thing is, I spent a fair amount of money upgrading this machine to the maximum amount of SDRAM supported. I purchased it because it was advertised as being 64-bit capable and I upgraded it because Apple originally reported it as being a 64-bit model. Now, I'm not sure if the extra memory I added is being fully utilized, though Photoshop does report seeing 15547MB of available memory.
Have any other owners of these second-generation Intel Mac Pro's encountered this? Does anyone know what's going on? Am I doing something wrong when checking for the 64-bit installation or architecture? Is Snow Leopard 10.6.7 mis-reporting the architecture for this model? Or did Apple silently withdraw 64-bit support for this machine in a recent OS update?

Hatter: Thanks for the feedback and links. Well, as described in one of the threads you linked to, the document below reinforces your assertion that only Mac Pro's 3,1 or later (early 2008) support 64-bit booting in Snow Leopard:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3770
However, if you asked me in court, I would swear on a stack of Bibles that sometime in the past, I read an Apple document indicating that the Mac Pro 2,1 supported 64-bit booting and I really thought I recalled booting this particular machine into 64-bit mode under early versions of Snow Leopard.
I guess I'm mistaken. Certainly, this issue can be confusing. When I read them out loud to myself, even perfectly-written, accurate explanations on the subject can sound like a circular, non-sensical George Bush rationalization being delivered by comic Will Ferrell. I must not be correctly recalling the details of booting into 64-bit mode with this machine. And I guess that since Photoshop has its own memory management scheme, and I only have 16 gigabytes of SDRAM installed anyway, it doesn't matter that much. Furthermore, in one of your links, Jason Snell of Macworld writes:
"...If you’re running a Mac powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or an Intel Xeon processor, your Mac is 64-bit capable. And Snow Leopard runs 64-bit-capable applications in 64-bit mode regardless of whether it’s booting into a 64-bit or 32-bit kernel. In fact, the only big advantage of booting into a 64-bit kernel would be the ability to use more than 32 gigabytes of RAM..."

Boot Disk Mystery after Snow Leopard Upgrade

I recently moved from 10.5 to 10.6.
First thing I did was to zero out and format my boot drive, which is actually two identical drives in software RAID. Then I installed Snow Leopard on this RAID array...as I did with Leopard and Tiger before that.
I thought everything went fine. But then I noticed I couldn't rename folders in my home directory. I could delete them, add new files, etc...but I couldn't rename them. Nor could I adjust any permissions on them. Odd.
So I jump into disk utility and hope to fix things with a repair, but the option is greyed out. I can't repair permissions or do anything else really...all options relating to my boot disk are greyed out. And booting from another volume or from the install CD does not change this!
I am totally lost on this one so I hope you have a clue. Again, the OS seemed to be running fine aside from these, well, quirks. But I am unable to do anything with this disk even when manipulating it from another volume (i.e, not booting on it)

I am going to zero out these disks again and rebuild the array from scratch, per the guide here:
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/raidstripe.htm
Probably easier. I'll post results when I have them.

Why does my MacBook Pro not boot up with the Snow Leopard Disk?

I have erased the entire hard drive on a 2011 macbook pro that had snow leopard on it. I was corrupted. I not insert my Snow Leopard Disk and the machine will not boot. I chose target mode to erase the hard drive from my mac book pro with Mt. Lion on it.
Thank uou for any help,
Ken

Target mode? Is there a second computer involved? Why not insert the Snow Leopard disc in the computer on which you wish to install and hold down the C key to boot from it?
If the disc came with a different computer it will not boot another model. Retail discs also may not boot all model computers, even those that came with the same major version. For example, some MBPs came with 10.6.6 but a retail disc may only be 10.6.3.

Dual boot with Mavericks and Snow Leopard on Two different internal drives?

I have a late 2009 quad core Mac Pro running Snow Leopard- it has 4 internal HD's. I want to eventually upgrade to Mavericks. Before I do a clean install of Mavericks on my start up disk that has Snow Leopard OS, I was hoping I could download Mavericks and install it on another clean internal hard drive to test it out before I commit to erasing my main drive and doing a clean install. My Mac Pro meets the minium specs to run Mavericks.
If I install Mavericks on this second internal drive can I dual boot using the option key at start up and elect to either operate in Snow Leopard or Mavericks? What are the concerns or issues I might face if this is possible?
As I have Snow Leopard, I am also unable to produce a Mavericks bootable USB flash drive- the terminal commands don't work with Snow Leopard. With Mavericks installed on a second internal hard drive- will I be able to create a bootable Mavericks USB Flash drive?
Thanks for any advice.
KT

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Custom icon for Boot Camp partition on Snow Leopard desktop?

I have a Boot Camp partition (NTFS) with Windows XP. In Snow Leopard, the partition shows on the desktop with a generic hard drive icon. I'd like to change this to a custom icon, but when trying to paste over the generic icon in the Get Info window, Edit->Paste is grayed out.
In Leopard, it was possible to have a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition by formatting a thumb drive as FAT32, pasting the custom icon onto it in the Get Info window, booting into Windows XP, and copying two invisible icon files from the thumb drive to the NTFS drive. This would display the custom icon for the Boot Camp partition icon on the Leopard desktop. This doesn't work in Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to use a custom icon for a Boot Camp partition on the Snow Leopard desktop?

I don't see this option in Properties for the Boot Camp volume. In any case, I believe the custom icon is set correctly for the C: drive in Windows. I followed he procedure in the second paragraph of my initial post, which I learned from a post over a year ago. I copied the two hidden files .VolumeIcons.icns and ._ File _ to the C: drive. When I boot into Leopard, the correct custom icon for the Boot Camp partition appears on the Leopard desktop. But when I boot into Snow Leopard, only a generic hard drive icon appears on the desktop for that partition.

Bootcamp with Snow Leopard and Windows XP

Hello
Previously I had used Bootcamp in a 27" iMac to install Windows XP Home for the purpose of installing Empire Total War and playing it. This all went ahead smoothly with no problems. I sold the iMac a while ago, having first removed Windows and reformatted the hard drive.
I have a Mac Pro bought in 2008 (Model identifier: MacPro3,1 ; 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) which shipped with Leopard. I have just ungraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (with software update online) and partitioned the main drive with Bootcamp. I then attempted to install the same Windows XP, which all seemed to be going well (I put it on the Bootcamp partition) until it came to restart the Mac Pro after installation. This then came up as a Disc Error and I could only shut down by holding the start button in. I have now removed the Windows partition with Bootcamp Assistant.
As this all worked perfectly with the iMac, Windows XP and same OSX Snow Leopard I don't understand why it wouldn't work on the older Mac Pro. Although, having said this, the instructiond did only mention newer versions of Windows - 7 and possibly 8.
Can anyone tell me please, is there a way of making this work with WIndows XP (as it worked before with the iMac) or do I have to buy Windows 7 to make it work?
Thanks in anticipation of your help.

Using Disk Utility
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1782
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
To Resolve Startup Issues:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417
Format and Partition:
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart_3.htm
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-partition-your-hard-drive-on-mac-os -x-snow-.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

Boot MacBook hard drive(Snow Leopard) via USB on MacBook Pro(Leopard)

Recently my old MacBook's (2.0 Core Duo) logic board failed. It was running Snow Leopard and is either on 10.6.3 or 10.6.4 (not sure when I last updated). I would like to remove the 500GB hard drive and use a SATA to USB connector to connect the hard drive to my work MacBook Pro (2.2 Core 2 Duo) running 10.5.8 and use the work laptop to boot the failed MacBook's drive. Before I try this setup, I was hoping to find out if this will work at all or if it could potentially mess up my work computer.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You want to boot your MBP with the MB's HD? Won't hurt to try, but it might not work. Trying won't muck up the MBP. Alternatively, if you're trying to recover stuff from it, you don't have to boot with it, just mount it and transfer stuff, assuming the username & password combo matches. Otherwise, use the Migration Assistant to do the transfer.

What is most recent boot ROM compatible with Snow Leopard?

Just got a fine refurb Qc i5 27" iMac which was reportedly manufactured in May 2011. It's tested and warranteed by Apple, and came with Lion installed. I am hoping I can back-grade it to Snow Leopard to make the human interface like the file systems on our other 10.5/10.6 machines.
I am guessing that I might be able to do this if it indeed was made in May, before Lion shipped on all newer machines.
I suppose I can set up an external drive and install 10.6 externally and see if the installer allows it. Wouldn't that indicate the the ROM is compatible with 10.6?
The iMac boot ROM version is
IM121.0047B0A
Thanks for a definitive answer!

Update from OP: I made an extra tray in my MacPro with a test install of 10.6.8. Booted ok as alternate drive in that machine. Then I used Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable copy on an external LaCie drive. Plugged the LaCie into the quad-core iMac, which recognized it as a potential startup drive via FW 800. It booted fine. I suspect if I zeroed the iMac's drive, then I might be able to boot the SnoLeo install disk and install, or boot from my LaCie external drive and use CCC to clone to the iMac's drive.
I'm concluding that the May 2011 firmware is fine for 10.6, as it was shipped that way on the spring releases. So now I'm guessing that Lion's new recovery structure may interfere with a "backgrade" install. I'll scrape and sand the internal disk after cloning it for good measure, then try to install 10.6. More notes in a week or so.

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