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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 6.0.x and 7.0  boot selection.
Message-ID: <1991May29.211438.24151@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 29 May 91 21:14:38 GMT
References: <16429@helios.TAMU.EDU> <392@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <43810@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <43810@netnews.upenn.edu> george@mech.seas.upenn.edu writes:
>:
>:One caveat on this method:  I have not tried it on a disk with multiple
>:partitions, but it ought to work the same way.
>
>Well, how about it. Any brave souls out there tried keeping 6
>and 7 on different partitions of the same drive?

I have two 105 meg HDs (one Conner, on Quantum Pro), both formatter with
OnTrack System's Disk Manager Mac software (v2.25).  I cannot boot from
different partitions on the same drive--I tried setting things up this
way, but it appears that (1) only the root partition for the drive is
around at boot time and (2) it is only late in the boot process that the
other partitions get mounted.
  As such, no dice for me this way.  However, keep 7.0 on the internal
  and 6.0.5 on the external and swapping back and forth with SwitchBoot
  (INIT) works great.

  Configuration: Mac SE/30, 8 meg, 2 x 105MB HD, System 7.0, System
		 6.0.5, etc....
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