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Title: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: TheGoose on May 26, 2011, 04:28:00 PM

Um, so I am wondering if it is possible to change the boot priorities in HDTool Box, save and re-arrange how my computer boots.

Or does it destroy the data on the partition?

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: jj on May 26, 2011, 04:31:23 PM

No boot priority will not delete the data on the drives.  Its fine to dfo what you propose.
 
Disclaimer:  I take no responsilbity for anything ever :)

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: TheGoose on May 26, 2011, 04:34:21 PM

Quote from: JJ;640403

No boot priority will not delete the data on the drives.  Its fine to dfo what you propose.
 
Disclaimer:  I take no responsilbity for anything ever :)

OK EVERYBODY, JJ SAID I COULD DO IT! :lol:

HDTool box scares the hell out of you, and it's all lies!!!!!

:lol:

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: jj on May 26, 2011, 04:42:31 PM

Though you could just use early start-up to select the boot device :)

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: TheGoose on May 26, 2011, 04:52:03 PM

Quote from: JJ;640405

Though you could just use early start-up to select the boot device :)

Yeah that's what I normally do. My tower is setup like this:

1. turn it on, reboot it, it loads up AOS3.9 ( always kludgey )

2. But there is AOS4 on a latter boot partition. ( must go into E.S. to get this to boot up..)

I am going to switch them around, AOS4 1st and then use a script to choose which OS I want to proceed to...

Which will all probably end in tears. :lol:

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: zipper on May 26, 2011, 05:30:41 PM

Quote from: TheGoose;640407

Yeah that's what I normally do. My tower is setup like this:

1I am going to switch them around, AOS4 1st and then use a script to choose which OS I want to proceed to...

Which will all probably end in tears. :lol:

Yes, OS4 puts its resident module into the memory and then 3.9 won't work I believe.

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: Franko on May 26, 2011, 05:39:16 PM

@ TheGoose

Not sure which type of PPC board your using but if it's a BlizzardPPC board then when you've finished with OS4 and want to go back to 3.9 just hold down the reset button for ten seconds and this will clear all OS4 stuff from memory and reboot back into 3.9... :)

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: TheGoose on May 26, 2011, 05:53:58 PM

I'm gonna try this:

http://aminet.net/docs/help/Dualbooting_EN.pdf

Option A

Title: Re: Change Boot Priorty, and live to talk about it?
Post by: rvo_nl on May 26, 2011, 06:41:29 PM

I wrote my own script just for this, installed on the very first 100mb of my drive (workbench 3.1). it simply asks me which OS to boot from, then loads the rom into memory, reboots, and after that the script detects the correct kickstart in memory and boots from the corresponding partition.