how to change BootX default startup?

[Andrew McVinnie]

HA! this is an easy one that even my pee-brain can answer!

When you get to the BootX screen, right after the happy Mac screen... 
the BootX window has a button for MacOS and a button for Linux.

The button with the double circle around is the one that will be loaded 
automatically, to change it. do this:

Press tab.

thats it!  but press tab before it gets done counting to ten, and the 
double circle outline of the button should move from one button to the 
other, setting the other button as default. Then click it with the 
mouse to get it to be permanent.

Hope that helps
Andy McVinnie


On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 01:45 PM, David Purdy wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I have successfully installed and troubleshooted
> (shot?) both YDL 3 and 2.3... liking them pretty
> much...only one nagging problem... on the 3.0
> installation on my Beige G3/400MHz,
>
> when the machine boots up and switches from the happy
> mac to the BootX panel, the default (bolded) button is
> the MacOS, not the Linux button.  On the 2.3 machine
> (an older 604e/200MHz PM7600), the opposite is true...
> the default is set to Linux, so that if you let it sit
> for 10 seconds or so... it automatically resumes the
> bootup ...into the desired YDL.
>
> Is there a way to set the default to boot into YDL
> 3.0?  As is, if I'm not there during that 10 second
> startup window, it automatically goes into MacOS,
> rather than Linux.  I've searched resources, and
> haven't come up with a way to set the default startup
> to Linux?
>
> Help, anybody?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Purdy
>
> Wisconsin
>
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