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A/UX dual boot problems

LarBob

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Hey all, I'm having issues with dual booting a regular Mac OS system + A/UX. I have the A/UX part working, the issue is that it refuses to boot from the Mac OS system disk. When I select it with the Startup control panel and reboot, it reboots off of the MacPartition anyway. Here is a picture of my partition setup (is it because the Untitled partition is an "Additional Macintosh volume"? What's the best way to fix this?)

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CC_333

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I assume MacPartition is the minimal Mac OS needed for bootstrapping A/UX?

I'm not really sure what to do here. Is there a way to boot into that minimal Mac OS and not initiate the bootstrapping process?

c

 

LarBob

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I assume MacPartition is the minimal Mac OS needed for bootstrapping A/UX?

I'm not really sure what to do here. Is there a way to boot into that minimal Mac OS and not initiate the bootstrapping process?

c
You can cancel the A/UX startup, but that still wouldn't fix the issue of me not being able to boot off of the other partition.

 

LarBob

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I tried using the "System Picker" utility, which led to a Happy Mac at reboot, then an automatic reboot, and then blinking question floppy. So no dice there.

 

LarBob

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Ah, I needed to use a newer startup disk picker. The one from 7.5.3 seems to work fine.

 

beachycove

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Old thread, but I've been using System Picker, which not only allows you to boot from the MacPartition, but also allows you to copy the contents to a folder on another partition/ drive and boot from it like any other System folder.

 
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