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On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Gary Driggs wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Paul Mather wrote:
>=20
>> I am presuming this is because the
>> partitions don't look sufficiently "OS
>> X"-like.
>=20
> But what does the startup disk sysprefs app di? With a Windows boot =
camp partition it takes a little bit for it to show up but once it's =
selected it becomes the default until changed -- presumably by settings =
in Open Firmware.

It does not show up in the "Startup Disk" System Preferences section.

Cheers,

Paul.