Bootloader

[red_devil]

guys I run windows 7, fedora 10 and mac os on my PC... the during boot time, the grub bootloader of fedora shows up a menu having all three os..
now if i select fedora it boots directly into it and everything is fine...

when i select MAC, its darwin bootloader comes up with options to windows and mac (and defualt is windows) ..


now is there any way that i can overwrite all these bootloaders with one single bootloader that can boot into any os without it giving any more bootloaders (like darwin or grub or windows' loader )

i just want one bootloader to act like a switch statement in C -- select an option for os and get directly into it without any sub options ...

PS: i guess it sounds confusing ... but i don't know if i could put my case in a better way

 

[Flake]

I assume that Windows OS is booting up fine on selecting its entry in Fedora's GRUB. Just edit Mac OS bootloader. Set Mac OS as default and set its time to zero. On setting minimum time, Mac bootloader will not appear and boot up default OS. I have never used Mac and but I am sure you can edit its bootloader easily.

 

[red_devil]

^ that way only the time spent on selecting the boot options is reduced but the boot loader is still there <even if i set the time to 1sec>

i wanted to know if there is any software that lets me completely get rid of these individual boot loaders.. some standalone software .. (something like GParted)

 

[Flake]

There is no direct way to boot up any OS without using its Boot Loader. GRUB uses chainloading to boot up Windows OS. It does the same thing with Mac. You can hide Boot Loader of Mac and reduce its time to zero seconds but its not possible to call bootup sequence of Mac directly.

Boot loaders can directly call boot sequence of native OSes only. E.g., Linux boot loader (GRUB) can directly execute kernel/initrd commands of other Linux distro but it can not call boot.ini file of Windows OS directly. In the same way, Windows OS can call boot.ini file of other Windows OS directly but can not call grub.conf or menu.lst file of Linux OS directly.