how to change BootX default startup?

[David Purdy]

Thanks, Andrew!

I'll give it a try tonight when I get home.

...and if your's is a pea, then my sometimes feels
like a pin-head!

Regards,

Dave Purdy

--- Andrew McVinnie <lintila@mac.com> wrote:
> 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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