<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">To start from a CD just reboot and hold down the C key.<DIV>Another way is to restart holding down the option key and you will get a selection of different devices to startup from.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Dan A Currie wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello All,<BR> <BR> I have my daughters FrankenMac running and internet connected but as I was showing her around OS 10.2.8 I found that the "Startup Disk" in the Sys Prefs is corrupt ... gone, the window pops up but ther is nothing, nada in it and it takes some time to close it.<BR> <BR> Hence, I am unable to tell it to start up on the CD or in OS 9. <BR> <BR> I know that in old OS 9 you could trash different Sys Prefs and reboot and a new one would appear but I can not figure out how to trash the Start up Disk pref or if this will work.<BR> <BR> Help!!???<BR> <BR> Dan Currie<BR> </FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">G4 mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>