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Re: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor



On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> MacOS was installed on the first possible partition (mostly /dev/sda5) with
> linux on sda >= 6.
> 
> I'm going to initially try quik with a MacOS clean setup, but I'm wondering
> about these machines I've already setup.
> 
> Since OF looks through the partitions for a bootable one, will it skip the
> HFS partition and continue looking to find the Linux partition?

If this setup could work, people could install MacOS just for when the NVRAM
is wiped.  

Otherwise, you could have a portable external drive that has
MacOS on it and use that to boot and start linux.  The boot floppies are
pretty limited...  I hate the way auto-complete doesn't work on them...

Mike



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