[Duo2400] Re: Hacks and success on this list

Mark A. Kippert mark at helpmymac.com
Tue Jan 14 07:04:02 PST 2003


Larry Friedman on 1/14/03 2:42 AM wrote:

> I wasn't able to get that to work when I was having trouble with a
> System 7.6 partition on the 2400. I thought that was only to start from
> an external drive.
> 
> ~ Larry
> 
> 
>> Does this mean that restarting and then holding down
>> Cmd-Opt-Shift-Delete
>> will not result in starting from one of the HFS+ partitions?
>> 
>> Bob F

Yes, that's exactly what that key combination does, forces a Mac to look for
a volume other than the internal boot drive to start up from. This has even
worked for me when trying to start up from a CD, on those rare occasions
that holding down the "C" key fails to work.

-Mark



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