> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  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.
> 
> I don't think that it's going to work, since it's MacOS that doesn't
> give the disk time to spin up. The only thing I can think of is, if the
> external disk had a MacOS partition but no System Folder on it, you
> could make it the startup device. The ROM would wait for it to spin up,
> find no MacOS in there, and then try the other disk in sequence.
> 
> But of course, that could mean reformatting and/or repartitioning the disk.


  I think if I put the minimum MacOS that I use to boot NetBSD on the
external drive, it should work.  I have
several OS's on the system. Two on the external hard drive.  But the minimum 
MacOS that I use to boot
NetBSD is on the internal drive.  The system always remembers the last one 
that it was booted from and starts from there regardless of which disk or 
partition it's on.  So if I booted the system from MacOS on the external
hard drive, it should start up from there after a power outage, too.
I'll try that later and post the results.  I should have thought before.

		Guy

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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, 50 MHZ, NetBSD 1.4!
South Korea
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