From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199908052138.RAA29909@mail-1.global2000.net> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:22:55 -0400 Subject: Re: How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes) From: "Andrew B. Arthur" To: Sean James Swallow , "Ira K. Weiny" CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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: ac os inux-pmac pen firmware Thanks, Andrew Arthur a.k.a. AArthur arthur99@global2000.net AIM: arthur998 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]