From: "Andrew B. Arthur" <arthur99@global2000.net>
To: Sean James Swallow <olaph@takilma.nurk.org>,
"Ira K. Weiny" <iweiny@kdat.csc.calpoly.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes)
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:22:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199908052138.RAA29909@mail-1.global2000.net> (raw)
> 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@global2000.net
AIM: arthur998
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-05 21:22 Andrew B. Arthur [this message]
1999-08-06 13:50 ` How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes) Jerry Quinn
[not found] <199908050500.AAA30434@lists.linuxppc.org>
1999-08-05 15:30 ` Grant Erickson
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1999-07-30 21:09 Ira K. Weiny
1999-07-30 22:09 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-07-31 0:19 ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-08-04 22:45 ` Sean James Swallow
1999-08-05 19:37 ` Michel Lanners
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