by Dave | Dec 18, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Wondering how to set rEFIt so Mac OS X isn’t the default? In the root of your mac drive is a “efi” folder within which is a “refit” folder. Open refit.conf and one of the last lines says #legacyfirst Just remove the “#” and...
by Dave | Dec 18, 2008 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, early on in my new life as an Ubuntu user the splash screen started dropping off before the login page is displayed. I don’t really mind seeing all the technical stuff going on, and especially in those first few days it was valuable to see...
by Dave | Oct 31, 2008 | Tinker Blog
At some point in the endless reboots back and forth to different OSes, I found myself again at the Mac OS X login screen. I entered my username and password. It accepted them, the login screen went away and… came back. It did this several times. I rebooted. No...
by Dave | Oct 29, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I have to admit that I cheated here. I already had my system using Boot Camp with a Windows Vista installation (which runs great on my MacBook Pro by the way) and I had two great pieces of software from Coriolis Systems- iDefrag and iPartition. By defragmenting my Mac...
