G4 1,42 Dual Boot Time 1,25min?

hi,
i`ve got different mac`s and the 1,42 is the slowest with 1,25min boot time - is that normal?
- my quicksilver 867 single boots in 32sec!
-my imac 400dv boots in round 40sec!
(thats why i am a little confused)

My 20 year old IIci boots in 17 seconds.
Like said, it depends on the amount (and speed) of RAM in your Mac. I changed my PMG4 MDD from 1G to 2G many years ago, but the one thing I do remember is the first boot after the upgrade seemed to take forever, and it's been slower ever since. 2G of RAM, on a 167MHz bus is a lot of RAM to check.
Also depends if you have a selected start up disk. If you do it goes straight to your chosen disk to boot. If not, it asks all the disks if they have a bootable OS on them and will pick one (usually the first installed OS on the first partition or the Master disk on the first ATA channel).

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Dual boot time problem

I have been having problems dual booting into Windows 7 and Arch. The time is always slow by a few hours, no matter what I try to do. I have tried both localtime and UTC and get the same problem.

Is the time slow on Windows and Arch, or just slow on Arch?
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I have created a new partition on the Mac HD for Lion as I would like to dual boot. Do I need to install Snow Leopard on that partition before installing Lion? If so, can I use one of my Time Machine backups to do this?

I have created a new partition on the Mac HD for Lion as I would like to dual boot. Do I need to install Snow Leopard on that partition before installing Lion? If so, can I use one of my Time Machine backups to do this?

zoominnana wrote:
Can I set up 2 different time capsule backups? one for the lion partition and one for the snow leopard partition?
No, you can't partition a Time Capsule's internal HD. Both partitions will back up to the same sparse bundle. keeping the backups for each partition separate.
Time Machine will not take the two OSX partitions as two different computers, but for best results, exclude the Snow Leopard drive from backups on the Lion partition, and exclude the Lion partition from backups on the Snow Leopard partition.
There may be some files on the Lion partition that Time Machine on Snow Leopard won't like, among other things. See #10 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for details.

When dual-booting with Windows 7, Mac OSX time settings reset every reboot.

I have recently installed Windows 7 Professional on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro via BootCamp (Running Mavericks BTW). Everything runs grean and have not experienced any problems on the Windows side, but I have a problem with Mac OSX now. When I am using Windows 7, and I reboot into Mac OSX, I find that my time settings are wrong. It seems like my time zone has changed, because the date is correct, as well as the minutes, but the hour is always wrong. When I go to Date & Time in System Preferences, and my time zone is correct, but I still have to chage the hour in the time. Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to stop it would be greatly appreciated.

If you dual boot your Windows PC with OS X or Linux, you may have experienced a problem in which your clocks reset themselves incorrectly every time you boot into Windows. Here's a simple registry edit to fix that.
Essentially, the incorrect clock setting happens because OS X and Linux use GMT time while Windows tries to synchronize with your local time zone, getting confused when you reboot between the two. Apple's own Boot Camp drivers for Windows are supposed to fix this problem, though some users have noticed that it still happens even with the drivers installed, and some Linux users are left out in the cold. Furthermore, if you have a Hackintosh, you can't install the Boot Camp drivers, so you'll need to find another way around the problem.
To fix it, just hit Start and type regedit.exe in the search box. Hit Enter and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation. Right click anywhere in the right pane and hit New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name it RealTimeIsUniversal, then double click on it and give it a value of 1.
Lastly, reboot into OS X, then reboot back into Windows. You should now notice that your clock actually displays the correct time.

Will time machine get messed up in dual boot Leopard/Snow Leopard?

I have one piece of software that I need to use that does not work in Snow Leopard, so I have held off upgrading for awhile. I have a project coming up however that uses another piece of software that is accelerated greatly by running in Snow Leopard, thus I would like to dual boot Leopard and Snow Leopard on separate partitions.
My question is: is the Time Machine backup going to work when I am booted into either OS version? Do I have to disable time machine in one of them? I could be booted for several days at a time in one OS version or the other, so I would like to be backing up while in either os. I really value Time Machine. It has saved my behind several times.
Cheers,
-Matt

Matthew Woods wrote:
Thanks for the testing and tips Pondini. Sounds like everything will work, so I just ordered my copy of Snow Leopard.
You'll love it!
Your idea of excluding the the opposite boot partition from each other's time machine settings is a good one. I plan to keep most of my work files on a separate internal drive anyway (that will be included in the TM backup under either OS), so the boot partition not currently being used shouldn't change when I'm in the other OS.
Ah, in that case, don't partition the TM drive (otherwise you'll have two separate backups of the work drive). And it won't much matter whether you exclude the "other" boot volumes or not; if nothing changes, there won't be anything to back up.
There are a couple other changes in Time Machine for Snow Leopard, that you might notice:
Disk full option, messages, and handling. In TM Preferences > Options, the +Warn before old backups are deleted+ is worded +Notify after old backups are deleted+ in Snow Leopard. If the disk gets full under Leopard, the backup will fail with a message. On Snow Leopard, the oldest backup(s) will be deleted, then a message will be sent. See #C4 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
The "Preparing" phase at the beginning of a backup is now called "Calculating Changes," and (effective with 10.6.3) you'll see "Scanning nnn items" messages when TM does a "deep traversal," and "Preparing nnn items" messages" on the TM Preferences panel and when you click the TM icon in your menubar, before actual copying gets started.

How to set time in Dual-boot config with Windows 8.1

Hi,
I have been trying to workaround this problem i am having with Arch linux and Windows 8.1 time settings.
According to Installation guide on Wiki I set hardware clock to UTC and added my local time zone too.
But my Windows 8.1 uses hardware clock a local time and it is really confusing me.
I did tried to setup Windows 8.1 to use UTC (http://superuser.com/questions/494432/f … bios-clock)
but that settings is not working on my side (most Windows 8.1 users are also getting the same problem)
Please help.

I have two laptops which are dual booted arch and Windows 8.1. For both of those machines I set the Windows clock to be UTC instead of local using the method in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ti … in_Windows (i.e. creating the .reg file and executing it - take care that the .reg file is created correctly with the .reg extension or it won't execute). I still allow Windows 8.1 to update its time from the network and it does not cause a problem, though the advice is to let Arch do the time synchronisation. (That may be because it is not yet summertime so I will also disable time sync in Windows before the change to summertime at the end of this month). I also followed the normal install advice for Arch and have the hardware clock in UTC, and have chrony set up to keep time in sync. Additionally I use KDE and have my normal timezone with DST adjustments for summertime. I have not had any problem with that way of working on either of my two machines.
I presume that if the Windows clock registry hack is done after the dual boot install it should not matter but I made that change before installing Arch.
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-03-21 10:46:04)

Running Dual boot windows 8 and win 7 pro with xp mode installed!! I love it!!

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Step 1: using diskmgmt.msc you have to shring the C partition. I shrunk it so I had 80GB remaining as unallocated space.
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Step 3: Connect your usb dvd
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Step 5: Reboot your machine and when it starts press F12 to get the boot menu and select the usb dvd drive then press enter
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The Realtek driver was an exception .. goto to the lenovo site and pick the x100e tablet and download the LAN driver from there about (4MB). Copy it to flash drive and install it in win 7 from the .exe file. The driver for LAN will install sucessfully. The version of the driver is 7.46 something the 7.11 versions do not workl.
I have only 3 drivers that I could not find - 2 list as unknown and are related to ACPI or power management and 1 lists as USB controller but all the USB stuff works without it.
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It's been many, many years since I don't do dual boot anymore. Don't find the reason to do it, either. Different kinds of virtualization should be enough. Anyway...
dfw1417 wrote:
It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
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Convert PXIe-8135 controller to dual-boot Windows 7 and LabVIEW RT

Hello. I have a PXIe-8135 controller that originally was just running Windows 7. We are trying to convert it to a dual boot system to also run LabView Real Time. (There is host computer that will run LabVIEW 2014 with the RT module, and the controller will become a target).
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1. Since you already have a FAT32 partion created, go into BIOS setup and change to booting 'LabVIEW RT'.
2. The system will attempt to boot LabVIEW RT, see that the partition is empty, and switch over into LabVIEW RT Safe Mode. (this safemode is built into the firmware, which is why you don't really need the USB key).
3. The system should come up correctly and be detectable from MAX, and you can proceed with installing software.
4. To switch back to Windows, go back to BIOS setup and choose 'Windows/Other OS'
(*) One area where the USB key is helpful on a dual boot system is with formatting the disk. If you want to convert from FAT32 to Reliance on the partition designated for LabVIEW RT, the USB key lets you attempt to format a single parition and leave the rest of the disk untouched. If you format from MAX, the standard behavior is to format only one RT partition if found, but if not found, it will format the entire disk. Formatting from MAX on a dual boot system is consequently riskier and you could lose your Windows partition.

Dual Boot Windows 7

Hey guys, I was just wondering what exactly I need in order to successfully dual-boot my Mac into Windows 7. I've got the software for Boot Camp all down and ready, but my only question is finding the right copy of Windows 7 that'll install as a first time. Also, can I install Windows 7, or would I need Windows Vista/XP already installed and then just upgrade the Windows? Thanks, and could you tell me if this Windows 7 product is correct/eligible for Dual-Boot: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/windows-7-home-premium-with-service-pack-1-64-bit-li cense-and-media-1-pc-pc/5130359.p;jsessionid=B5FB2641437C993E1EAE2430E84DAB00.bb olsp-app03-156?id=1219111161659&skuId=5130359&st=categoryid$abcat0508002&lp=4&cp =1
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Windows 8.0 new dual boot GUI disappeared and replaced with text menu after installing updated 8.0 and 8.1

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dfw1417 wrote:
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ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!
WHICH machine?
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The EFI Update MBA51.00EF.B02 has broken WIndows on my MacBook Air 2012
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Using an external monitor connected via Thunderbolt > VGA adapter, the Windows GUI Logon & desktop shows on the external monitor, but Control Panel display manager cannot see the MBA own lcd screen as a display option.
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vintherine wrote:
the.ridikulus.rat wrote:
@vintherine: Everything you mentioned in the 1st post is correct. In your case the correct commands should be:
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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Thanks. I've tried that, get now a single line with Windows, which does not work
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I've tried F12 key, found a menu, started on the HD, found a new menu corresponding with the EFI directories (arch_grub, Microsoft....). Microsoft entry sent me on... grub menu
EDIT: Can you try (note the extra line : "set gfxpayload=keep")
It's time for diner (i'm in France). I'll see this in the next hour.
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EDIT:
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Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2013-09-27 18:29:09)

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Okay, well as usually happens, when I resort to help I end up solving my own problem.
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I deleted the partition table with sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sda and then used gdisk to recreate it, specifically setting the code for /dev/sda1 to ef00.
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Ie, when add music and create playlists under Windows XP; then boot across to Windows 7, I'd expect iTunes there to instantly see the same new music and playlist information.
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