[X Newbies] Booting from cloned Firewire drive

[David Flory]

>> I have successfully booted from a cloned firewire drive after  
>> changing my
>> startup disk choice, but I can't figure out what keystroke(s) to hit  
>> to boot
>> from that drive when not selected as the startup disk.
>
> AFAIK, Apple/Option/Shift/Delete/ to bypass the start-up disk and look  
> for another system folder to boot from. (On your FW drive, in this  
> case.)
>
> Anybody know a better way?

Hold down just the Option key on startup? This goes into the open  
firmware screen where you can pick the drive to start from. Fair winds  
and happy bytes, Dave Flory
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