Re: Questions about IIGS, hard drives, and booting different OSes...

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

It would be nice if everything out there worked like the Ramfast SCSI
or the Microdrive, both have easily selectable partition booting.

Something to add to the confusion.  Ninjaforce wrote a nifty GS/OS
Init, called TaifunBoot which allows you to select from multiple
operating systems on one volume.  It can be found at
http://www.ninjaforce.com.  You might be able to find more detailed
info if you search for it here in csa2 via google groups.
Unfortunately it isn't as clean as having a dedicated partition for
each OS.

- Paul

Warren Ernst wrote:
> All,
>
> OK, so I now have an accelerated Rom3 GS, lotsa ram, and a CFFA. But
> this question relates to any GS with a bootable, high-capacity storage
> device.
>
> (And before you think me insanely stupid for asking, prior to this GS,
> all I ever owned was a souped up //e with a 1-meg bootable RamFactor
> loaded with ProDOS 8 and 8-bit software.)
>
> I would like to be able to boot either into ProDOS 8 or GS/OS,
> depending on what I'm in the mood for that day, with my CFFA and a
> large Compact Flash card.
>
> Not knowing any better, I would assume I would install GS/OS 6.01 onto
> one partition, and ProDOS 8 on another partition, and I guess figure
> out how to get DOS 3.3 images on another partition.
>
> Assuming the CFFA card is in Slot 7 (and the bootable slot is set to
> "SCAN"), I would imagine that a PR#7 (or a cold- or warm-boot) would
> boot the computer into the OS that was in the first partition on the
> card. I can't think of how I would boot into the second (or third, or
> fourth) partitons.
>
> Or would I install ProDOS 8 on the first parition, GS/OS on the second,
> and then manually launch GS/OS from ProDOS 8 when I wanted it? That
> doesn't seem right.
>
> I'm so confused! ;-) Can someone explain how this works to me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Warr