I've booted my 8600 with 2 CD drives attached (1 internal and 1 external) by leaving either one empty and placing a start up CD in the other. If they are both Apple drives, holding the "C" key down during startup has started from the drive with the CD. With a non Apple drive, I've had to use cmd-opt-shift-delete, which disables the assigned startup drive and finds the next OS containing drive on the SCSI chain. (Apple drive means one that uses the Apple CD extension, vs non Apple, which needs a 3rd party extension to work.) I am assuming that you are using SCSI devices and that you only have an OS on a single hard drive?
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