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From: carlo@osprey.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana)
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Subject: Boot partition - was: Re: boot volume woes...
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Date: 14 Aug 90 00:39:11 GMT
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In article <6268@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>If a hard drive is partitioned with SilverLining (v. 5.x), and more than 
>one partition is bootable, the first (alphabetically) partition is indeed 
>the one used to boot.
>
> ...
>
>Anyway, the alphabetization feature can be handy. I keep a "pure" system 
>(no INITs, no modifications) on one partition and my regular system on 
>another. To test for INIT-caused problems, I simply rename one of the 
>partitions and reboot to get the "pure" system.
>
>Russell Owen

In the most recent MacUser/MacWorld, there is an article about 'getting
ready for system 7. In it, the author suggests keeping system <7 on a
separate hard disk from system >=7 and keeping the applications (for the 2
system versions) separate. I seem to remember that it is also mentioned
somewhere that you need to reformat your HD for sys 7. Now, could the above
trick be used to boot on different partitions dep. on which system you
decide to run under? Could Silverlining be used to reformat the partition
for sys 7 (assuming this is indeed needed - can anyone confirm?) much the
way that Silverlining allows A/UX as well as Apple/OS partitions? I suspect
you'd need an upgrade of Silverlining after sys 7 is released, in any case;
but more generally what is it about sys 7 that requires reformatting, if
this is indeed tha case? Would this not be a first for a MacOS upgrade?
Carlo.



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