Dual-Boot Software

#1 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 - 17:45

Hi again!

I've just installed system 7.5.3 on a Macintosh emulator. I've got it set up with 7.1 in one system folder and 7.5 in another (both on the same disk). I was planning on using System Picker or System Switcher to choose between the folders.

It all works fine, but annoyingly enough both utilities are applications, so I have to boot the emulator, choose my system, then reboot again with the correct one, which is rather tedious

. Rather, I would prefer something which lets me choose the system at startup time.

Is there something like this available?

Thanks,

onlyonemac

#2 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 - 00:21

You could always just use two different images and two different emulator configurations. Do you use basilisk? On Linux? Then copy the file ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs to ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs2. Open the file and change the "disk" option to the right image.

Then boot like that:

Code:

BasiliskII --config ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs

Or, for thew other configuration:

Code:

BasiliskII --config ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs2

Or just give the disk option directly:

Code:

BasiliskII --disk /home/karsten/68k/mac_os8.1de.img

Code:

BasiliskII --disk /home/karsten/68k/mac_os7.5de.img

I don't know any software that could do it like grub or so.

#3 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 - 16:36

I use Basilisk II on windows, but I find it a pain to recongfiure all the time. I would prefer to do it the "proper" way.