Comment triple booting is possible on oldworld (Score 1) 17
On my Old World PowerBook G3 (233MHz) I have OS X public beta and Mac OS 9.0.4 installed right now - and holding the option key at startup boots whichever system is not set to boot by default.
This happens well before the stage that bootx loads, and so you could also have a Linux partition (as I did before I got the OSX beta) and use bootx to choose between OS9 and Linux.
This means (assuming OS 9 is the default system in system disk) to boot OS 9 - nothing special needed. to boot OSX - hold option just after the power key and until the screen lights up. to boot linux - wait for bootx to run (as part of the OS9 boot) and choose linux.
This happens well before the stage that bootx loads, and so you could also have a Linux partition (as I did before I got the OSX beta) and use bootx to choose between OS9 and Linux.
This means (assuming OS 9 is the default system in system disk) to boot OS 9 - nothing special needed. to boot OSX - hold option just after the power key and until the screen lights up. to boot linux - wait for bootx to run (as part of the OS9 boot) and choose linux.
