On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tom Hutchinson wrote:
> Hi right now i have Mac OS X and 9 on one partition and Mandrake 8.2b2 > also installed it works fine except when i tell Mac OS to switch to > boot into the other version(ie in OS X say to boot into OS 9 next time) > yaboot doesn't come up just booting into mac os is ok but when i > switch between the two it makes the computer boot directly into Mac OS > so i have to do setenv boot-device hd:9,\\tbxi (which makes things fine > again) are you there any apps for MacOS that will let me switch which > ide like to boot into "safely"? is there a yaboot entry i can make > to manually saw to boot into OS 9(or X) then i could just leave macos > always set on one but when i wanted to boot to the other just select it > in yaboot? As far as I know, it only works that way if they are on seperate partitions. I haven't used OSX myself. Have you tried the method of holding down "Option" at boot and see if OS9 and OSX and Linux are offered? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
