When I try to run it, it says that it was unable to find a Windows volume. Dunno if any of this matters, but I run my boot camp installation via parallels as well, and I've made the windows partition not mount on boot time so I don't have to see it on the desktop. I tried running the app after mounting the partition as well, but same problem occurred.

As a question, after using this app (assuming it works), what happens when you restart from windows, does OS X still boot as the primary OS? (which would be ideal...)

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I should really do a bit more homework before posting comments...

I found the answer to my last question, which is BootChamp does NOT change the startup volume... good.

I also think I've found the reason my Windows partition isn't being detected... MacFuse and NTFS-3G?

$ /Applications/BootChamp.app/Contents/MacOS/BootChamp --verbose
2007-07-18 19:42:26.871 BootChamp[3439] Unsupported? hfs
2007-07-18 19:42:26.871 BootChamp[3439] Unsupported? devfs
2007-07-18 19:42:26.871 BootChamp[3439] Unsupported? hfs

The second hfs (or maybe the first, no way of knowing), I assume is my FileVault dir. Which leaves only my Windows partition... devfs??

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BootChamp's only been tested on NTFS volumes, and they have to be mounted when the app runs in order for the app to see them.

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Well, the drive IS formatted NTFS, and I did try running it while the drive was formatted... I'm not sure as to why the report says 'devfs', maybe it's because of ntfs-3g and macfuse?

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For some reason my windows boot partition does not respond to statfs()... any ideas?

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can the utility boot a Windows partition from an external drive?

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http://www.macinstruct.com/node/129

I use this all the time. Works great.

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Ok, I finally got it to work using the applescript from the above link (thanks supamonke!)

However the provided applescript did not work for me as-is. I believe there must be something wrong with the handling of ntfs drives on my computer, so trying to bless a mounted ntfs volume would always fail. Plus, my drive is never mounted. I therefore modified the applescript into something more portable and, in my opinion, more accurate. Simply change the first line to match the volume label of your own Windows XP installation, and the second to match the disk partition:

set WinDisk to "Windows XP"
set WinDevice to "disk0s3"
tell application "Finder"
	if disk WinDisk exists then
		eject disk WinDisk
	end if
end tell
do shell script "bless -device /dev/" & WinDevice & " -legacy -setBoot -nextonly" with administrator privileges
do shell script "shutdown -r now" with administrator privileges

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I loved until I upgraded to Leopard. Now I can't get past the Windows administrator password screen because my (Bluetooth) keyboard and mouse are not recognized and I can't hit "Enter".

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