Mark A. Kippert wrote:
>I'm thinking of partitioning a drive and putting different versions of MacOS
>on them to use as emergency boot drives to hook up to other Macs that are
>having problems.
>
>i.e. OS 8.1 for booting an 86040 machine on one partition while I have OS8.6
>on another partition for PPC & G3/4 machines. . . [snip]
>
>This way I could go out to a clients site with one machine that would allow
>me to boot any other machine and it would contain all the tools I need. No
>additional CDs, floppies etc.
>
>Any thoughts?
Just that it may not work the way you plan. "Startup disk" doesn't seem to
allow you to select a distinct partition, just a distinct SCSI address
AFAIK (but I *could* be wrong). So whichever partition gets searched for a
startup disk first will serve as the boot partition. At least with my
Quadras, if the machine detects a valid startup system on a partition early
in the startup search sequence, it will stick with it, even if that
partition turns out to carry a PPC-only startup system. If the 68040
happens to have latched onto System 8.6, you'll get Happy Mac followed by
chimes of death, and you may play hell trying to get it to find the
partition you'd like it to startup on.
Come to think of it, though, you can almost certainly get around this by
making certain that 8.6 (or any PPC-only system) is on an HFS+ formatted
partition. A 680x0 should bypass any HFS+ partition in looking for a boot
partition.
Let us know how it all pans out.
Jeff
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