Setting startup disk on LC475 — #4

Post #4 by register

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Mon, 26 May 2008 - 20:44
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/setting-startup-disk-on-lc475.13351/

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The classic Startup Disk cp might not be the appropriate tool for multiple systems on a multi-partitioned harddisk drive.

My suggestion is HDT (this post contains a copy from How to prepare dual boot system?). HDT permits to make your choice at boot time (nearly as good as the trick with the depressed option key on recent Macs).

Have the FWB Harddisk Toolkit software (HDT). I managed to use it to set up a PB 180 with several partitions on the internal harddisk drive. Each partition (=volume) may contain one blessed system folder. Use HDT to configure which volume shall be the standard boot volume for a given SCSI ID (which is stored in the PRAM as a boot volume). You may force the Mac to boot into any bootable partition at early startup by use of a key combo (it is like cmd-opt-shift in combination with the partition number). To get the details read the manual, please). The version of HDT I used was 2.0.1.
FWB Inc. seems not to exist any more, sadly. Is there any supply of the most recent HDT version available ? The version number stalled arround 5, I think.