To start from a CD just reboot and hold down the C key. Another way is to restart holding down the option key and you will get a selection of different devices to startup from. On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Dan A Currie wrote: > Hello All, > > 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. > > Hence, I am unable to tell it to start up on the CD or in OS 9. > > 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. > > Help!!??? > > Dan Currie > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20070413/dfd3990b/attachment.html