[G4] Forced Dual Boot Mutation

[Hal]

Well, if it's a G3-based iBook, it is supposed to support booting from 
OS9. Only the G4 iBooks are OSX only.

-Hal

On Mar 1, 2004, at 10:26 AM, lavode at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I haven't personally confirmed this, but I have no reason to doubt it. 
>  My sister-in-law got a new iBook a few months ago, and had some 
> technical problems with it.  As a result, she ended up reformatting 
> the hard drive and installing a new OS from scratch.  I don't know 
> what she did, but she now says she can boot into OS 9, as well as X!  
> I told her to post what she did on xlr8yourmac.com, I don't know if 
> she has or not.
>
> Anyone else figured out how to do this?  I didn't think it was 
> possible.  Unfortunate thing is that she had actually intended to make 
> it dual-boot, but had given up, when it suddenly worked.
>
> If people are interested, I will try to get more specific info from 
> her, and post here.
>
> -Lavode
>
>
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