[Duo2400] Re: Hacks and success on this list

[Larry Friedman]

So far I got bup-kiss, it just sat there with the ? floppy icon. 
Perhaps it doesn't work on multiple partitions.

~ Larry


On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 11:00  AM, Mark A. Kippert wrote:

> Larry Friedman on 1/14/03 10:19 AM wrote:
>
>> Will it work on regular HFS volumes or only on HFS+ ? (That's what I
>> love about this list, all this "obsolete" troubleshooting info that
>> I've forgotton over the course of time and upgrades)
>>
>> ~ Larry
>
> Command;Shift;Option;Delete should work with either HFS or HFS+. It 
> just
> tells the Mac to start looking for a different drive with an operating
> system installed (rather than the internal boot drive). However I don't
> remember in what order it searches (ie. first look for a hard drive, 
> then
> move on to a removable such as CD, then Zip, etc.).
>
> If I recall correctly, first it looks for another hard drive. If it 
> can't
> see one with a system folder on it, then it moves on to look for a 
> bootable
> CD-ROM. But again, I don't remember.
>
> Also I'm not sure how it would handle finding another hard drive with
> multiple volumes, each with it's own OS. I would imagine it will go 
> with the
> first partition on that drive.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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