I wanted to reboot from my Disk Warrior CD-ROM so I put it in the internal CD-ROM drive and rebooted, holding down the "C" key, but the computer started up from the HD, eventually reporting that it couldn't recognize the CD-ROM and offered to eject or initialize it, so I chose the former.
The CD-ROM had opened on the Desktop when I had inserted it before rebooting and also was recognized when I re-inserted it after it had been ejected. This happened all over again when I repeated the procedure, but restarting with the C key down only immediately after inserting the CD-ROM. Finally, I decided to choose the CD-ROM from the Startup Disk control panel and that worked when I restarted. Perhaps related is that the Wall Street started up yesterday with a bootable Jaz disk in the drive. I thought you had to press a specific key combination (Option+Command+Shift+Delete) to get a Mac to boot from an external drive, overriding the internal HD. Anyone have any explanations? -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:" Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------