I thought I'd pull my SE out of the closet and play. It's a basic SE (not an SE/30) with 4MB of RAM. I replaced one of the 800k floppy drives with a 150MB hard drive years ago and it works well - for what it is.

I decided I'd try to make this machine a dual boot between 6.0.8 and 7.5.3. It'll boot the 800k 6.0.8 install disk 1 and it will also boot a 700MB external SCSI drive with 7.5.5 where the 7.5 installers are located.

Here's what I've done so far. I searched this site and didn't find anything along this line.

I partitioned the 150MB disk into roughly 100MB and 50MB partitions. I've installed 6.0.8 on the first partition and all is well. I installed the same OS on the second partition but the machine refuses to boot on the second partition. As a test, I booted off of the floppy and initialized the first partition leaving the OS installed on the second partition. Now, when I turn it on, I get a flashing happy mac, as if it found a bootable drive, but can't get to it.

I like all my machines to have a dual boot capability. It makes disk maintenance a whole lot easier.

My questions are these. Can a SE actually dual boot from a partitioned hard drive? Is there an additional application that I need to use to make this happen? Has anyone else ever tried it?