Subject: Re: Native boot [was Booter 1.8]
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@injersey.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/18/1995 20:58:17
At 4:24 PM 12/17/95, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>If we're making a boot partition on a Hard Disk, I think we'd want to
>keep the finder around, along w/ the Startup Disk CP, and maybe the
>Monitors CP. Thus if the user needs to fire up a full MacOS from
>another drive, he/she can.
>

Lest we not forget how a mac boots - floppy1, then floppy2, then SCSI
devices.  Starts at the HIGHEST bus, HIGHEST ID, and works down until it
finds a bootable disk - if the startup disk isn't set, well then, it would
do just this.  If you make sure that the disk you wanna boot is the highest
SCSI # on the chain, it'll boot there.

But it still might be a good idea to keep that MacOS around...

Shawn.

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