Re: Boot a computer over a network...

[Curt <fsscm@uaf.edu>]

Well, you can tell BootX (mac bootloader) to load the MacOS by default.
When the option comes up, you can click on linux in the window.  It will
boot into linux, then all that needs to be done is to restart the
computer.  When BootX comes up, it will wait 10 seconds for a response and
boot the default OS (just set it to Mac, and not problem).

That way there's no worries about HFS+ partitions and the like.

/curt

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jason Knight wrote:

> >Set a cronjob to (1)modify the bootloader mac-pref file & (2)reboot.
Seems 
> >simple, but dunno as to the structure of the mac bootloader pref file.
> :) I've been poking around in linux for a little while now, but I'm
still 
> not sure what this means. Excuse any oversimplification, but cron is a 
> utility to execute on a timer, yes? Following on the above suggestion, 
> would it then be possible to mount the mac drive (it would have to HFS, 
> not the newer HFS+) swap out the preference file that tells the computer 
> to boot linux with one that tells it to boot mac, then reboot? In
theory, 
> a corresponding applescript or something could be run at Mac startup to 
> again flip flop these, so that at closing time, linux loads by default 
> I'm afraid I'm not much help beyond concept here. I might be able to 
> figure out an applescript, but I obviously know nothing about cron.
Would 
> this work, or am I way off base?
> 
> Jason
>