How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes)

Andrew B. Arthur arthur99 at global2000.net
Fri Aug 6 07:22:55 EST 1999


> I wish you good luck... Maybe you could come up w/ a way to boot from a
> selection of OS'es via OF. But the mac crowd will still wine, as there is
> no icons to click on in OF... =/

See http://www.linuxppc.org/userguide/bootMenu.html for the Open Firmware
boot menu.

It always used to work quite well, so I expect it would work good now.

Supports timeout (after 180 seconds), and presents you with a boot list like
this:

<m>ac os
<l>inux-pmac
<o>pen firmware

Thanks,

Andrew Arthur a.k.a. AArthur
arthur99 at global2000.net
AIM: arthur998

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