[slackintosh-users] Re: multi boot
- From: Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:49:57 -0800
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:12:39AM +1000, Craig Cooper wrote:
> I heard that MacOS 9/X rewrites OpenFirmware on boot, so is difficult
> to dual boot with Yaboot?
They do not. As you pointed out, the Startup Disk control panels will
change the boot device (overwriting that variable in OF), but simply
booting OS X (or OS9) won't change it. (And it's all but trivial to
boot manually into linux to re-run ybin.)
Dual-boot may be more challenging with an OldWorld Mac, but IIRC there
were few if any OldWorld G3s.
--keith
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