On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> 
>   I have my quadra set to boot automatically after MacOS
> start up.  But if the power goes down and comes back up again
> it doesn't work because I have my netbsd boot partion on
> an external disk drive. (and a minimum MacOS on the internal)
>  That external drive needs a few seconds more to 
> start up and doesn't get mounted under MacOS when power is restored.
> So the netbsd booter starts up and can't find my boot partion with 
> the kernel.  (At least that's what I think is happening) 
> 
> 
> 
>  Now that I'm running this machine as my mail server
> I would like to have it come up on it's own after a power failure. What can
> I do to make the MacOS delay it's booting until the external hard drive is
> ready??
> 

There is a setting in the booter (don't remember where since my mac's only
been booted a couple of times in the last few years, as it never crashes)
that lets you set a delay before booting.  You might try this one.

-Dan