Script to reboot from X into 9
Script to reboot from X into 9
- Subject: Script to reboot from X into 9
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:43:35 +0000
Hands up everyone who finds themselves regularly rebooting between OS 9 and
OS X in order to get the best out of their macs in these transitional times.
From OS 9, it's possible to change the startup volume with AppleScript, but
that seemed not to be an option in X, until I stumbled across this...
do shell script "/usr/sbin/bless -folder9 '/Volumes/MacHD/System Folder'
-setOF" password "XXXXXX" with administrator privileges
That's all on one line, and you'll need to change MacHD to the name of your
OS 9 startup volume, and XXXXXX to your login password (sorry, admin only).
But then I hit a brick wall trying to trigger a restart from the script.
It's there in the Finder's 'Legacy Suite', but when I try to make it happen,
the script (or the app that's trying to run it) just hangs. The restart
continues if I can find a way to pull the plug on the script.
So, is there a problem with restarting using AppleScript in OS X 10.1.3?
And BTW, has anybody else been missing their VersionTracker mailings over
the past couple of days?
Mr Tea
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