Q1: I'd like to be able to select a spare boot folder in case I FUBAR the one. But how do I do that? (In OS9 I think there is a way to choose at boot..)
You have to bless the System Folder you want to boot from. To do this move the Finder file out on to the desktop and then put it back in it's System Folder. If that doesn't bless the folder then in the other folder, the one you DON'T want to boot from create a folder and call it something like "Finder in here" and move the Finder file into it. Putting "Finder" at the beginning of the folder name makes it sort next to the Finder file. After this now try blessing the System Folder you want to boot from.
OK, but with what Dan's told me, I can make myself a lot of grief. If I FUBAR the active System Folder, say with Resedit, I have no easy way to change to another Folder to recover.
Call me paranoid, but I want to have a plan to recover BEFORE I break things...
Hmm, can a external SCSI drive be used to boot a 190? Or just a CD drive? If I could put a System Folder on the external drive and boot from it..
Or maybe I could mount the 190's drive onto the Wallstreet via that SCSI target mode; and then rename/move things like that, but it's not clear to me how it would get blessed....
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