[tiffer17]

I dont really know what forum this belongs in, but oh well.

recently i bought a 60 gb lacie firewire hard drive. it works just fine with my computer and doesnt need any drivers. i would like to have mac os x, linux, and mac os 9 on my comp. mostly i use os x so i would like to use the 60 gb hd for that. i have my 10 gb internal hard drive partitioned into two 5 gb partitions and i have os 9 on one of them and linux on the other. the problem is that i cant get my computer to boot into linux now. it did at first, but now it goes straight into os 9. to get it to boot into os x, i have to change the setting in th startup disk control panel. i would like to know how to boot my computer into linux which is already installed.

thanks

[Detrius]

This depends entirely on the type of machine you are running, the boot loader you chose to use, and to some degree the way you have OS 9 and OS X installed.

If you are using yaboot on a relatively new machine, holding down the option key at boot will give you a choice of which volume to boot off of. Your yaboot boot volume should show up. If you have OS 9 and OS X installed on the same volume, you won't be able to choose between the two using this method.

If you are running an older machine, BootX or miboot work differently.