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Howto make a dual boot cd

Hi,

I'm trying to make a dual boot cd out of 2 bootable disc images. I've burned the on 1 cd and they're mounted fine. When running startup disc, the are both listed as valid boot volumes, but I can only boot from the volume that was burned first. When booting with the boot loader, only the first volume is listed.
i'm using:
PowerBook G4 (1GHz)
Mac OS X 10.3
Toast 6

Any suggestions?

Schipmolder

weed

What other OS are you trying to boot? Which one was burned first and how did you burn one without the other? Burn them at the same time.

schipmolder

ASKER

Hi weed,
Both images contain a customised Mac OS X (Panther). I burned the first image with toast 6 on a cd-r without closing the disc and then I burned the second images immediately after closing the disc.
How whould you burn them at the same time?

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schipmolder

ASKER

OK, Thanks so far, but last night I've tried to do it with an OS 9 and an OS X partition and again it will only boot for the first burned image. Even when the startupdisk recognises both...

Any suggestions?

weed

Instead of burning one session, then burning another session, make a disk image and organize the OS X and OS 9 installs into the same partition/session. Just the way it is on your HD. Then burn the disk image.

schipmolder

ASKER

That way I can probably only change the system taht will boot of cd by the startupdisc, right? If so, what I'm trying to do is make 1 cd with 2 volumes that both will appear in the bootloader, similar to a rescue disc that you use when your normal HDD system won't boot anymore.

weed

Yep. Though if you can boot off either volume you can use the startup disk to change to the other volume.