> ... What is this "startup selection screen" and
> "control panel" you speak of? How does the system
> know there are multiple OS's installed, and how
> does it locate them? Is this done in OF, or as
> part of OS X boot, or what?
First off, I installed each OS in separate partitions.
That isn't necessary for OSX+Classic, but has a couple
of advantages. Linux, of course, needs its own
partitions....
Since you also have a beige G3, BootX is the easiest
Linux booter to use. I've heard of other boot schemes
working on beige boxes, but BootX has the least hassle
involved with it. There may, by now, be a version that
supports OSX directly... I don't know for sure.
BootX consists of two components -- a system extension
and a control panel. The system extension pops up a
window during the startup process, allowing you to
choose MacOS or Linux. (If you make no choice, BootX
starts the default OS after about 10 seconds.) You can
also open the BootX control panel in MacOS and switch-
boot to Linux from there, but I see a lot of video-
related problems doing that. For Linux boots, there's
a text box to specify the root partition. Kernels go
in a "Linux kernels" folder under Extensions, and there's
a drop-down menu that allows you to select a kernel
(handy for testing).
MacOS, both X and Classic, use the Startup Disk control
panel to select the partition to boot from. So if you
are running OSX, you can select the Classic partition
and restart. During the restart, the BootX window pops
up and you can start either Linux or Classic. To get
back to OSX, you have to first reboot to Classic, then
use Startup Disk to select OSX (and reboot again).
You can ignore OF. I suppose you could write a little
script that lets you choose the boot partition at
startup, but that's waaaaaaay beyond my comfort zone.
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