OS X Yosemite will be available from the Mac App Store today

[Arthur]

And iOS 8.1.3

Wrong thread.

[mac_shinobi]

Wrong thread.

 

ok ok - just thought I'd put it out there lol

[Ben-at-work]

We've just started looking at migrating to Yosemite and ran into the Bootpicker issue. I looked into alternatives (Bootrunner, Quickboot) but as we hide the Bootcamp volume from students neither suited our needs as they wouldn't work if a second student then logged into OS X unless they restarted the machine first - Bootpicker bless it's heart always worked regardless of the drive being mounted or not.

 

In the end I wrote an application that meets our requirements which students run from the dock, if anyone's interested I've included the code below:

 

do shell script "diskutil mount /dev/disk0s4"

set adminpass to "YOUR LOCAL ADMIN PASSWORD"

tell application "Finder"
set iconPath to (get name of startup disk) & ":Applications:Utilities:Boot Camp Assistant.app:Contents:Resources:DA.icns" as alias
end tell

set askRestart to display dialog "Are you sure you want to restart this iMac into Windows?" buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 1 with icon iconPath
set doRestart to button returned of askRestart

if doRestart is equal to "No" then
do shell script "umount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP" password adminpass with administrator privileges
end if

if doRestart is equal to "Yes" then
do shell script "bless -mount /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now" password adminpass with administrator privileges
end if

 

Obviously not as nice as Bootpicker as the students have to log in, then launch the app to go into Windows but it works for us.

[Ben-at-work]

Just testing a version of Bootpicker that works for 10.10+

 

https://www.nbalonso.com/fixing-bootpicker-for-yosemite/

[ITGeek123]

Link appears to be dead

[Ben-at-work]

Still works for me, I can attached the DMG if you need it?

[ITGeek123]

I'll give it a go at home dude. If it doesn't work at home i'll love to have the dmg please

[ITGeek123]

Some reason when I click on the Windows icon. It just crashes and does nothing Anyone else had this issue?