[CUBE] Booting from external drive

[Riba]

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 05:11 PM, A Marshall wrote:

> i'm thinking about getting an external firewire hard drive and putting 
> a basic instalation of os 9 on it, just incase i need to do an 
> emergency boot from it, my drive in my cube only has os X installed.  
> What i wanted to know was is there a specific key command to boot 
> directly from an external drive or would i have to boot from a CD 
> first and then select Start Up Disc?

Keep the Option key pressed while turning on the computer and you will 
be presented with a graphical menu from which you can choose one of the 
available bootable systems currently available on your Cube. It works 
if you have various systems on different partitions/drives, so it will 
work here. There was also a certain key you could use to boot into OS 
9/OS X...i know it was X for X but not sure about the other one ;)