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From: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: multiple startup systems on a single harddisk
Keywords: mac IIx, system, finder
Message-ID: <839@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 19:14:43 GMT
References: <8667@pyr.gatech.EDU>
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Reply-To: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In-reply-to: belk@pyr.gatech.EDU (Nasr Ed. Belkeir)

In article <8667@pyr.gatech.EDU>, belk@pyr (Nasr Ed. Belkeir) writes:
>I have a MacIIx with two systems on it (arabic and english). When I boot
>the machine I always boot in the arabic system. I tried to switch to the
>english system using the <option,command> combination as indicated in the
>manual but I always get the following message "system busy". One remark
>though, my two system reside on the same hard disk. When I try to switch 
>to the english system from a floppy it works fine. I am not interested in
>switching from the floppy ... too slow. I would like to find a way to switch
>between two startup systems on the same hard disk. Did anyone out there
>encountered the same problem ? Any solutions, I need help ??????
>
>__Nasr__
>

There are 2 utilities to do that:

The Blesser from Apple (check on Sumex)
System Switcher from Canon.

Basically, the way they work is by "blessing" the system folder you
want to use. Of course you will have to reboot after each blessing.
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