Or upon booting, immediately hold down just the option key. When the arrow appears, click once on which ever HD you want to boot from. It might take several minutes before the arrow appears - be patient. On the dual G4 533 DA which has no issues and which I am using it take about 25 seconds for the arrow to appear.
Mel --- On Wed, 5/20/09, insightinmind <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: From: insightinmind <billycarm...@verizon.net> Subject: Re: My Ethernet Duel G4 want start after updating. To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 4:59 AM >> >>> But another >>> question, how can I boot up with the drive I want without using a >>> external disk repair utility to select. Is their a way? >>> choice >> Are you asking for methods for starting up from external drives? I believe Shift-Opt-Command-Delete when starting up, asks the system to startup from an external disk, or alternate partition (like a Classic OS 9 partition). Xpostfacto can also be used to Startup, using the internal disk as a Helper, resulting in the external disk being booted from ... I think that's the way it goes. It does create a boot cache of some sort, which may complicate things if you return to normal boot mode. I can use that technique to Startup from external FW drives on my Yikes!, where ordinarily I cannot boot from external FW or USB drives at all on the Yikes!. I believe you could also Startup from the CD or DVD Install Disk, and use Startup Disk in the Utilities menu to redirect to an external drive. I might be off in the names of the Install disk menues/items, but you get what I mean. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
