I'm attempting to use the Apple System Software Recovery Disc ( http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-system-software-recovery-1-dated-1998 ) to install multiple Systems on my Power Macintosh, and is it possible to have a boot loader to boot into different partitions at start up?
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2011, August 19 - 9:16pm
#1
Just for fun
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2011, August 19 - 10:38pm
#2
I think so, don't know of any utilities, and you have to have "blessed" system folders to boot.
2011, August 19 - 10:47pm
#3
On a Power Mac I think you hold down option at the boot chime and it boots into the menu for selecting which drive you want to boot from, but it will only show drives with a bootable OS. I forget the proper name of this feature. At least I think this is how it works on my G4 Mini.
2011, August 20 - 10:50am
#4
I never saw a bootloader like GRUB on a Mac running OS9 or lower. I guess it would be difficult to implement, as the Mac HDD already has three or four hidden chainloader partitions to handle.
Startup Volume control panel can switch disks, and there is a keyboard shortcut for bypassing the internal HDD (ID=0): Control-Alt-Shift-Backspace.
2011, August 19 - 11:32pm
#5
System Picker? I think this has been used successfully on multiple System Macs in the past. Mac SSW 6 to Mac OS 8.1 - Perhaps newer Mac OS's too?
2011, August 20 - 2:52am
#6
Wow, this forum is more active than I thought it was. I installed a different System/Mac OS onto different partitions on a 20GB HD, and so far Startup Volume has been working well, though it is annoying to have to track it down though menus when I want to switch. The hold option at boot doesn't work, but it does with my iMac G4. Installing all the different versions is about the first thing that I've done to my Power Macintosh that has actually worked. Any amazing programs that I need to get?
2011, August 20 - 4:35am
#7
Hmm... I'm wondering if holding the option key requires a "New World" ROM. What model Power Mac are we talking about?
2011, August 20 - 3:12am
#8
Well there was a boot loader for m68k Macs that came with the Linux flavours of the day, to allow the Mac to boot and let you choose to boot into Mac OS or Yellow Dog or Slackware or mkLinux, or several others. Things only got better with PowerPC, so you could check out the Linux distros for early PowerPC. Can't remember all the names, I have most of them on CD or Zip disk. Start with Debian or LinuxPPC
2011, August 20 - 3:51pm
#9
A Power Macintosh 6500/300.
2011, August 21 - 6:59pm
#10
Mandrake for example had the yaboot manager, I totally forgot about that, shame on me.
This is the the ReadMe as PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?43hqxl7xmknfq2b
Mandrake CDs are still available, if that is what you were looking for.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandrake/10.1/Notes/PPC
2011, August 22 - 2:37am
#11
Isn't yaboot only for new world Macs?