headless dual boot [solved]

[Norberto Quintanar]

Bravisimo!  And you totally stay away from the number one reason
people email this list, video problems.

--- Jason DeVita <jdevita@umich.edu> wrote:
> I did it!  Here's how: I left yaboot.conf with linux as the default
> OS.
> So then if I want to reboot into linux from OSX, I just have to
> make sure
> that the OpenFirmware variable "boot-command" is set to it's
> default value
> and reboot:
> 
> ----------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> /user/sbin/nvram boot-command=mac-boot
> shutdown -r now
> ----------------------
> 
> Then the reboot will execute mac-boot, which will run yaboot, which
> will
> default to linux.  To boot into OSX from linux, I run:
> 
> ----------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> /sbin/nvsetenv boot-command
> "hd:4,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
> shutdown -r now
> ----------------------
> 
> Then the reboot will execute the OSX start disk (BootX) directly
> without
> using yaboot at all.  And voila -- remote OS switching.
> 
> -J



	
		
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