Subject: Re: Rebooting NetBSD
To: Jeffrey Ohlmann <jaohlma@BGNet.bgsu.edu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/22/1997 14:23:52
At 1:00 PM 10/22/97, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
>I've been combing through FAQs and man-pages but haven't found the answer
>to this:  is it possible to reboot NetBSD without restarting the actual
>Macintosh and Booting from MacOS again?  I've tried all sorts of flags

No.

MacBSD is booted from MacOS.  Once running it erases all traces of its
origin so the only way to get MacOS back to boot from is to reboot MacOS.

shutdown -r will reboot MacOS, which may in turn boot MacBSD if the MacOS
boot partition has a properly configured booter (or an alias) in the
startup items folder.  shutdown -h will turn power off on some Mac's and
leave the machine in a quiescent state suitable for manual power off on
others (depending on whether MacBSD knows how to turn power off on that
machine).

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