On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 9:25 PM 11/14/97, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> >"automount" and "bootable" with partitioning/formatting software. His
> >point was that Startup Disk CDeV however doesn't know partitions. It will
> >only let you choose the disk, which will then boot from the first
> 
> Lots of people seem to think this, so it was probably true for older
> versions of MacOS.  Currently (since at least 7.5.5) startup disk lists all
> partitions and lets you choose.
> 
> I have a single disk on my 7500 and three partitions (two bootable).
> Startup disk shows all three.  I routinely use startup disk to boot from
> the alternate partition when I want to run speed disk on my system
> partition.  (Lots faster than a floppy.)
> 
> Anyone know when this changed?  Is this related to MacOS, or to running a
> PowerMac instead of a 68k Mac?

It's not PPC specific - since System 7.5 on my 040 Mac I've had
partitioned drives and been able to select a specific partition in the
Startup Disk control panel (before System 7.5 I wasn't partitioning, so I
can't comment on pre-7.5). 

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Nathan Raymond