Hi Kris;
At last some comments that sound like someone understands the areas that seem to screw up for me on my Beige G3
10.2.8 installed minor glitches so! zap pram! Then booting finds 9.1 --- no way to get back to OSX except a 'Re-Install' of OSX.
This is with an 80G IDE drive, partitioned 8G - OSX; 33G- OS9.1;39G-SCRATCH
Adding a 9G SCSI drive to the mix, allowed me to also install OSX in a 5G partition, with 4G for cache.
Any time ANYTHING botched things up, the machine would find the second partition on the 80G disk, and boot into 9.1
Even following Apple's recommendation to use the 'Startup disk' (Ver. 9.2.4) on the 'Install disk /utilities' for selecting back to OSX' didn't work.
My question --- Are you aware of anyone who has figured out (and done) the steps necessary to backup and be able to restore the NVRAM & PRAM to the 'Boot into X' state?
(From the OS9.1 state of course)
TIA
Chuck Davis
Once you begin using XPostFacto to boot via Firewire you need to remember never to use the real Apple Startup Disk control panel (OS 9) or pane (OS X) since these will confuse the situation because they don't recognize the complex boot sequence that XPF has put into the NVRAM & PRAM. If you need to boot back into OS 9, either use XPF to select the OS 9 drive, or use the "option" key on Restart to boot OS 9 (this will leave the normal Startup as the OS X volume). To leave OS 9 and boot to OS X you should always use XPF, and sometimes things can get "confused" if you've installed new software to the OS X volume and XPF doesn't catch it and fails to "synchronize" the helper to the new extensions. Luckily there are manual controls that can force a resynchronization so that every extension that is supposed to load does. I normally leave the "verbose startup" flag set to "on" just to be able to read the dialog in case anything goes wrong. If you've never read a verbose startup dialog (it's in the System.log of Console) you might get fooled into thinking many things were amiss that actually are normal. It takes a while to be able to see what's what.
Good luck! Kris Tilford
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