On Sep 27, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Marty Levine wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Marty Levine wrote: >> >>> >>> I have an iBook G4, 1.2 ghz with 768 mb RAM and a Superdrive. This >>> machine has been booting off an external firewire drive for almost a >>> year and is running Leopard since the internal drive failed. >> >> What do you get when holding the 'Opt.' (AKA 'Alt') key while >> booting? >>> >> >> Should be a screen with Icons for each bootable system. >> WAIT for the cursor to return to normal, select the external drive >> Icon, and hit return. >> >> HTH >> > > When I boot with the Option key held down I get the following > > a button with a curved arrow (clockwise) > an icon for the external hard drive > a button with an arrow pointed to the right > > So far nothing seems to cause a response other than clicking on the > arrow pointing to the right. After that I get the same black screen. > > I have never used this feature of booting with the Option key before. > Is this the normal behavior if there is only one bootable drive > available? > What you describe sounds 'normal'. If you had more than one bootable system, you would see that one of the icons was 'darker' than the rest. This would indicate that was the one currently selected for 'booting'. Since you don't have other Icons for comparison, the problem MAY be that your external isn't selected (even though it's the only one available). Try 'clicking on that one icon, If you see it 'darken' in appearance, then that was probably the problem. Click on the 'Right Arrow' box (Return may also work at this point). Then IF it refuses to boot up, your system on the External is Foo. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
