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tmtomh
Junior Member
USA
172 Posts |
 Posted - 02 Sep 2002 : 21:54:27
Is there any s/w out there that allows one to select the boot volume without booting up, going into Startup Disk, then rebooting?I assume nothing like this exists, as it would have to have open firmware (PCI PPC or later), but thought I'd ask just in case... TIA No rank Permanent 68k roommates:
Q605 full '040 36/1.2G/enet/7.6.1-NetBSD dual-boot
SE/30 FPU 20/500/enet/A/UX |
Flash
Full Member
Australia
637 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2002 : 07:43:57
Well it's not really selecting, more a case of 'forcing' you Mac to boot from elsewhere.Holding the C key down will make it boot from the CD Command+Option+Shift+Delete will cause the Mac to ignore the Startup Disk setiings and search the SCSI bus in ascending order for a bootable disk. Some disk utilities will allow you to do it too. I had a PowerBook (many years ago) and the drive was partitioned with FWB Toolkit. by pressing Holding down Command+option+Shift+1, 2 or 3 would make it boot from partition 1, 2 or 3. I havn't seen a boot loader as such for the Mac though. cheers
Flash! 68k ParaMedic |
tmtomh
Junior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2002 : 07:54:28
Thanks Flash! I didn't realize those key combos worked for 68k machines (although on reflection, why the heck wouldn't they?).This definitely improves my situation. No rank Permanent 68k roommates:
Q605 full '040 36/1.2G/enet/7.6.1-NetBSD dual-boot
SE/30 FPU 20/500/enet/A/UX |
Flash
Full Member
Australia
637 Posts |
Posted - 04 Sep 2002 : 04:53:56
oops, I just need to correct one thing.....CommAnd+Option+Shift+Delete causes the Mac to search for a bootable device in descending order 
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2002 : 19:02:37
If there's a bootable floppy in the drive, it will automatically boot from that.The Lightning Stalker |
candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2002 : 20:03:24
C doesn't always work. I think 8.0 was the first CD to support that, at least that's what my experience tells me. cmd-opt-shift-del always works, even w/ CD's. Floppies do come before SCSIAre you sure it doesn't search in ascending order? { candyPunk }
{ Captain of Observation, 68k MLA }
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{ My baby: Q660av } Edited by - candyPunk on 01 Oct 2002 20:04:42 |
Any way to select startup drive during boot?
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.