Choosing a Starup Disk on OS 7.1

[habibrobert]

Hello,

I seem to be having some trouble trying to select a start up disk using OS 7.1. I go to control panel, then starup disk. I see my three partitions there, but when I try to select the partition I want nothing happens. The hard disk is only highlighted and when I close the box and reopen it, I see that all three partitions are highlighted instead of just the one I wanted. I tried just selecting the Hard drive and then immediately restarted the computer without closing the starupdisk application but it still does not boot up to the disk that I want. What am I doing incorrectly?

Thanks

 

[Mk.558]

Were you able to get 7.1 going on the Mystic?

Try using System Picker 1.1a3.

 

[habibrobert]

Yep I was! After hours of tinkering around! I'll try using system picker and report back.

 

[habibrobert]

I tried using system 1.1 a3 but it did not detect my other partitions. So I decided to try 1.1 b and that one did detect my partitions, but when I selected a parting to choose from and restart the computer, it would default to using the main OS that I initially installed (OS 7.1).

 

[uniserver]

if you boot 7.6 or 8.0, 8.1 then it will not ignore your choice from the start up.

what are the other OSes on the hd?

 

[habibrobert]

I'm just using 7.1 and 7.0.1. I don't have system 7.6 or anything else to boot up with. I mainly just want to test that this thing works. once I know that it works I'll go out and find 7.6. So is this why it's not working? Cause I'm using an OS that does not support this kind of a feature?

So then what you are saying is if I boot up with 7.6 and choose a different disk to start up with (say OS 7.1), the computer will not ignore my choice and restart and boot OS 7.1?

 

[uniserver]

i just noticed with these huge SCSI sca hard drives that i have, when i make like 8 partitions and install different os'es on some partitions.

if i am toggling back and forth between 8.1 - 7.6 and (I think) 7.5.5, from start up disk, all is fine. when i boot up 7.1 it seemed like, no matter what os i choose it would always boot up to 7.1 basically ignoring my selection, however if i booted up 7.6 from my zip drive and set the start up disk that way, it would work fine and reboot from the HD and run those oses again.

 

[habibrobert]

Thats very interesting. I was starting to wondering if I had installed OS 7.1 incorrectly, or had a corrupt disk or something. But if you are having the same issues then it makes sense that the SCSI HDD is causing.