On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, at 03:12 US/Pacific, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 18.05.2004 11:40 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote
Johannes is correct -- if you need to, for instance, zap the PRAM or something like that, you will be stuck in OS 9 for the next boot. Once you've started up into OS 9, though, you can use XPostFacto to ensure that the next time you restart (and on all subsequent restarts, barring another PRAM reset), you will boot into OS X. Apple's Startup Disk control panel doesn't work for this
I would agree that's a problem--which is why I mentioned the OS 9 Installer disk method.
-- in my case, at least, it never has -- but XPF does, which is why it's such a life-saver for those of us with older hardware.
Just one clarification: A simple reset will boot back into OS X (ie hitting ctrl-command-power), but as Darcy said, PRAM resets won't. On my Wallstreet this includes shift-fn-ctrl-power which is a "hard-power down". There is absolutely no way to boot back into OS X without XPF after one of those.
Again, it may well work to have a minimum OS 9 on CD including XPF, but I have not tried this.
On the other hand, I have seen many posts on the XPF forum where only OS 9 could prevent complete reinstalls.
I would not dare to set up my Wallstreet without a bootable OS 9 partition, just in case.
OK, I'm duly forewarned. I haven't reset the PRAM since before OS X 10.0 though (March 2001).
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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