I was just browsing the Knowledge Base, and came across something I'd not known before. There is always the decision of how one should install OS 9 and OS X on your machine. To partition or not partition? And of course, if you buy a new machine, it comes preconfigured with both OS 9 and OS X in the same, single partition. So then there's the obstacle of utilizing Startup Manager when booting (holding down the option key). Startup Manager will search for all available boot volumes, but will find only one operating system per volume, and will find the OS which was booted last. Most of us already know that holding down C on booting tells the computer to look for a bootable CD. I just discovered today that holding down the X on booting instructs the computer to boot from OS X, even if OS 9 had been the previously-booted OS or if OS 9 was the current selection in the Startup Disk control panel. And, unlike Startup Manager, which does not permanently change your selection, booting this way will change your System Preferences to select X as the bootup OS.
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