Re: Scripting Startup Disk System Preference in OS X
Re: Scripting Startup Disk System Preference in OS X
- Subject: Re: Scripting Startup Disk System Preference in OS X
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:07:31 +0000
This from Allen Burnett
>
I am wondering if there is anyway to script the startup disk
>
control panel in OS X the way you can in 9?
Not directly, Allen, but you can achieve the same ends if you're prepared
to get your hands a little dirty with UNIX.
This script is for rebooting into OS 9 from X. In the first line (do
shell...privileges) you need to replace DISKNAME with the name of the
volume that contains the system folder your want to use, and XXXXXX with
the password that you use when logging in. (If you want to boot into
another installation of OS X, the line will be different - but as I have
just the one X partition, I haven't needed to find out how to do that yet.)
do shell script "/usr/sbin/bless -folder9 '/Volumes/DISKNAME/System
Folder' -setOF" password "XXXXXX" with administrator privileges
ignoring application responses
tell application "Finder" to restart
end ignoring
There are also shell script commands for shutting down/restarting the
computer, but these are pretty brutal. Using the Finder is safer, but
it's essential to use the ignoring block, otherwise the Finder will
remain active waiting for confirmation that all running processes,
including itself, have quit. D'oh.
Mr Tea
--
"Always remember to warm the pot."
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