Hey Severin Not sure if you tried Ronda's suggestion but for future reference you may have to wait a while. You may have to wait up to five minutes or so as the computer may be searching for a NetBoot/NetInstall on your network.
Should eventually work though. Thanks, David Moyle ---------- Bertram, Western Australia E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Leviathan - The Blue Beast" -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Sunday, 29 July 2007 4:37 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Startup drive On 29/07/2007, at 4:13 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > I have a partial clone of my hard drive on an external FW drive, > from which I start occasionally for a variety of maintenance > purposes. If I go to System Preferences/Startup Drive I can select > and start from the external drive quite normally. > If I do a Restart (or start from Shut Down) and hold down the > option key, both the original drive and system and the external one > come up on screen but the mouse will not select them (just shows > the wristwatch) and the fan goes like fury - it is a G5 1.8 SP and > I have to stop it with the power button. > Is there a simple reason for this? Is there a workaround, ie how > can I start from the clone in the event of a disastrous main drive > crash when I can not access System Preferences. OSX 10.4.10 > Severin Crisp Hi Severin, Try booting while holding down Option-Command-Shift-Delete This should make it bypass the normal startup disk. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
