Ah, I see that from this technote:barhar said:you can have a drive with multiple partitions - with various versions of MacOS X on any or all partitions; and when the Mac is booted with the <option> key pressed - all bootable volumes / partitions will be listed.
when i hold down the option key it will only switch into 9, if i used 9 last and press the option key it will still boot into os 9barhar said:'I take that to mean that if you have Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 on the same volume, it will only show the one you booted from last ...', if any volume and / or partition has a MacOS X 'System ' folder and a 'System 9.1.x' (or 'System 9.2.x') 'System folder' on it, when booting with the <option> key pressed, two separate icons will be displayed - one for 'MacOS X' and the other for 'System 9.1.x' (or 'System 9.2.x').
The same applies when viewing the bootable volumes / partitions with 'System Preferences' 'Startup Disk' utility.
i will try that when i get homesinclair_tm said:so option gives you a menu? i've always been told that hold down the 'x' key to get it to boot into os x, and hold down the option key to get it to boot into os 9, even if they are on the same volume. of course i was doing that with my ppc7500 and ppc8600 before i got a g4 tower, and never needed to go into os 9 anymore. now i want to reboot just to try it.![]()