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Post #5 by stretch
Source Forum68kMLA
CategorySoftware
Post DateSun, 13 Nov 2011 - 06:15
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/se-dual-boot.24131/
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Funny... I've never been able to boot from different partitions with my Quadra 700 -- it always goes to the first partition in the drive, and then the Startup disk control panel shows all the partitions of the drive highlighted! No problem between different drives, though.
That was the problem I was running into. With 6.0.8 on both partitions, it always booted off of the first partition. I booted off of the floppy and initialized the first partition. At restart, I got a flashing disk, therefore it couldn't see the second partition for whatever reason.

The fix? I started with a 800k floppy drive and a 150MB internal drive. My spare 800k floppy drive turned out to be bad. I added a Super Drive never intending on reading 1.4k disks plus a skinny 40MB hard drive. I booted off each floppy drive for drill and both boot. I initialized both hard drives and installed 6.0.8 on both hard drives. Dual boot works great this way.

Next, I booted from an external 700MB drive and installed 7.5.3/7.5.5 on the 150MB drive. The install took about two hours. Yes, 7.5 is slow on this SE I know, but with 6.0.8 on the 40MB, it is the dual boot that I wanted.

Now, I just need to find a use for this machine. With two internal hard drives, it picked up some weight.

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