I seem to recall that someone wrote a menu-like IFace that could be
put in forth's NVRAM.  What I would really like is a forth boot
that could be set to default to one system, and boot it after a
short timeout, but allow switching to an alternate on some keypress(es).

I know that Mac OS 9 won't allow this, because it scribbles on the
forth settings. ;-<  In theory, it would be possible with Mac OS X,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.

-dgl-

>On May 27, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Eric Berna wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got an old Blue and White G3 as a testing machine at my desk, and I was
>> trying out Mac OS X 10.4 on it instead of my production machine.  I need to
>> reposition this machine as an http server, so I thought I would install
>> NetBSD on it.  I wanted to keep Mac OS X 10.4 on the machine, just in case,
>> so I set it up as a dual boot machine.
>>
>> I installed NetBSD, and got it booting, when I needed to switch back to Mac
>> OS X for something. Open Firmware had boot-file set to ide1/@0:11,/netbsd.
>> I rebooted the machine, which stopped at the Open Firmware prompt.  I typed
>> in mac-boot, thinking it would boot Mac OS X.  I got the Mac boot grey
>> pattern screen, showing that the Apple software was doing the booting, but
>> it booted NetBSD.
>>
>> Is that expected behavior?
>>
>> Eric Berna
>> eberna@asq.org
>>