Everything seemed to be fine until OS X crashed this morning on my Mac Pro - Quad 2.66 Ghz desktop. I just realized I should've changed my start-up volume settings before hand to Mac OS X. *sigh* So, as I manually rebooted, I walked away to get a coffee refill and Windows XP started up by default as expected. Fine, no problem here. Now however upon restart and reboot, holding down the Option (Alt) key avails to nothing, no BootCamp hard-drive icons to choose from either OS, just a blank white screen and then XP launches.
Wondering if any of this has to do with the latest Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.1 that I installed recently?
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061121014726316
I get the feeling the majority of BootCamp users are on the laptops (e.g. MacBook, MacBook Pro) as I understand about the slower PIO mode for SATA for Mac Pro desktops in this current version of BootCamp, but if anybody has any suggestions to help boot back into OS X, I would be most grateful! (i.e. key commands to hold down while rebooting, etc.)
Oh yeah, and I do generally run Parallels which is a fantastic otherwise solution in the meantime.
Thanks!
Wondering if any of this has to do with the latest Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.1 that I installed recently?
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061121014726316
I get the feeling the majority of BootCamp users are on the laptops (e.g. MacBook, MacBook Pro) as I understand about the slower PIO mode for SATA for Mac Pro desktops in this current version of BootCamp, but if anybody has any suggestions to help boot back into OS X, I would be most grateful! (i.e. key commands to hold down while rebooting, etc.)
Oh yeah, and I do generally run Parallels which is a fantastic otherwise solution in the meantime.
Thanks!