Triple boot MacOs 9/MacOs10/Linux : can't start MacOs 9

Eric Dunbar eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 06:16:35 MST 2004


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:55:03 +0100, Charles Trois
<charles.trois at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> When I installed YDL 3.0.1 on my G4 iMac, I had chosen MacOs 9 as the
> default system.
> 
> Then the "x" and "l" keys, if pressed in good time, started MacOs 10 and
> Linux respectively, as they should; otherwise, MacOs 9 would start after a
> few seconds; pressing "m" did not make it faster.
> 
> Now, having installed MacOs 10.3, I wanted to make it the default. I
> therefore edited /etc/yaboot.conf, replacing "defaultos=macos" by
> "defaultos=macosx" and ran ybin.

Is OS 9 on a separate partition (I presume so)?

Eric.


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