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Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...
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Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...


  • Subject: Re: OS X to OS 9 restart script...
  • From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:02:57 -0800

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:18:13 -0400 Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:

> In the case of the command arg given in your post, that blesses the
> folder, but doesn't set it as the volume to boot from (or I'd be very
> surprised if it did).

From the "man" page for bless:

DESCRIPTION
The bless command modifies on-disk an Open Firmware-based
parameters used during the boot sequence. It allows fold-
ers the be "blessed" in the volume header, which allows OF
to find the loader program (usually BootX). bless also
sets Open Firmware variables to boot off the volume speci-
fied.


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