Reboot Easter Egg

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Djk515

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If you have a partitioned hard drive that's split between 0S 9 and OS X, you can reboot into X without opening the Startup Disk Control Panel in OS 9. Just hold down the "X" key while rebooting. I'm not sure if this works on startup though, I haven't tried it yet.
 
not really an easter egg... more like an "undocumented feature!" :cool:

rock on, i like it... so what does pressing "9" do? i'd try, but i don't reboot (much :eek: )
 
you can also hold down the option key and you will get a screen that will show all bootable devices, ie. OS X partition OS 9 partition and CD rom(if a bootable CD is in the drive)
 
Hmmm.... I think this might only work on newer machines -- I'm sitting in front of my G4/400 PCI machine that I got back in September of 1999, and none of those things work. Option doesn't do anything for me, with or without a bootable CD in the drive. Holding X down doesn't boot into OS X for me, either -- the computer boots into the selected "Startup Disk" every time.

I heard somewhere that these options were only introduced in later machines, like the AGP G4s and the Gigabit G4s. Does anyone have a B/W G3 or a PCI G4 that CAN do these tricks?

...also, I'm using a MacAlly keyboard -- think this has something to do with it?
 
I think they were implemented in the new firmware upgrades. I'm not sure if the G4 PCI had a firmware upgrade lately or not.
 
Holding down the option key does not work on my old G4/400. I thought the problem was the small keyboard... so I bought the pro keyboard... I was a little angry when it did not work :)
 
Yah, it only works on newer machines, or machines with firmware version 4.1.7 or later or something, I think ;)

It does defineately NOT work with my iMac rev. D :p
 
I have the newest hardware out there, a PowerBook G4 667 and a Power Mac G4 867 and holding the 9 or X key doesn't work on both of my machines.

Holding the option key does bring up the screen with 2 buttons and a hard drive icon, one button doesn't do anything and I'm sure this is suppose to be the button to switch from the OS X hard drive icon to the OS 9 hard drive icon, but it does nothing! The other button restarts my Mac. This is the behavior on both of my machines.

So what gives???
 
Originally posted by pwharff
I have the newest hardware out there, a PowerBook G4 667 and a Power Mac G4 867 and holding the 9 or X key doesn't work on both of my machines.

Holding the option key does bring up the screen with 2 buttons and a hard drive icon, one button doesn't do anything and I'm sure this is suppose to be the button to switch from the OS X hard drive icon to the OS 9 hard drive icon, but it does nothing! The other button restarts my Mac. This is the behavior on both of my machines.

So what gives???
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Do you have the latest Fimware? :rolleyes: ;)
http://www.apple.com/support
 
Originally posted by pwharff
I have the newest hardware out there, a PowerBook G4 667 and a Power Mac G4 867 and holding the 9 or X key doesn't work on both of my machines.

Holding the option key does bring up the screen with 2 buttons and a hard drive icon, one button doesn't do anything and I'm sure this is suppose to be the button to switch from the OS X hard drive icon to the OS 9 hard drive icon, but it does nothing! The other button restarts my Mac. This is the behavior on both of my machines.

So what gives???
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Option only works if you have 2 partions or 2 HD's i don't now about the X key never tried it.
 
Very inconsistent.

Worked on:
G4/466 (Digital Audio)
TiBook/500

Doesn't work on:
G4/733 Quicksilver
TiBook/550
Cube/450
iMac/450 DV+ (Summer 2000)

These are the only machines I have around to test on. All have "new world ROM" (can use the option key on startup).
Dunno

lata
 
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