Re: Success!! [was: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor]

[Tovar <tvr@usermail.com>]

>> It would be cool to have (I still have a MacOS backup system) :( MacOS on
>> the system with BootX, and in the linux init scripts, rerun the lines above.
>> To get to MacOS, just reset boot-device, and up comes MacOS.  BootX back to
>> linux, and you have a seemingly MacOSless system, quik restarts and
>> everything.

I don't know when/if LINUX is going to support high quality printing on an
Epson Photo 700 directly, and MOL doesn't currently support serial lines.
So i'm stuck booting into MacOS for various reasons.  But i have an HFS
LINUX boot partition instead of using BootX, and it doesn't need a monitor
or keyboard attached to boot, assuming i'm only going to access it from
ether.  Then i use keyboard magic to select the MacOS boot partition (or
use a floppy in an emergency) when i don't want to run LINUX.  This way
i don't have to mess around with Open Firmware using a serial cable (a
real issue for people with older machines who don't own two computers).  
It's quite a bit faster than BootX and now i only use BootX to test new
kernels or for 'rescue' purposes.

The boot partition was made in the same manner one makes an HFS boot 
floppy.  So this approach might be an alternative for those machines
you don't want to install Quik on for some reason.

                                  -- Tovar