Hacks and success on this list

ELN/rlf9 rlf9 at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 15 17:41:38 PST 2003


>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Hacks and success on this list
>From: "Mark A. Kippert" <mark at helpmymac.com>
>Message-ID: <BA499112.759C%mark at helpmymac.com>
>
>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.
>
The original example was about three volumes on the same physical drive. 
My question was about whether using the key combo to go from an HFS 
volume to an obviously unseen HFS+ volume on the same physical drive 
would work.

Bob F



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