I have seen a Blue and White G3 as well as a Wallstreet PowerBook do the option booting screen thing when OS X and OS 9 are on different partitions. I don't own either but I have seen it. I have a Beige G3 that doesn't do it and a Pismo and a G4 that do do it.
>> Michelle, >> >> Thanks for the reply. >> >> I do have the internal drive partitioned and the OS's on separate >> partitions. I was told since my posting (by Laurent Daudelin) that >> the Lombard's firmware may be too old to support the option-booting. >> When I installed OS 9.2 and tried to run the firmware updater it said >> that no update was needed. I am going to check the Apple website >> documents on firmware. > >And I'm still standing by what I said ;-) I have a B&W G3 that is slightly >older than my Pismo and the Option-booting thing doesn't work. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
