[X4U] can't boot from lion to one of my snow leopard drives

[Cheryl Ann Homiak]

Hi all.

In addition to my hard drive that has Lion now on it, I have two usb 
drives and a firewire drive with snow leopard on them. All this was 
working fine until I installed Lion. Now, in my lion install, when I go to 
system preferences > startup disk, system preferences just goes busy and 
voiceover says that system preferences has no windows; I end up having to 
force quit system preferences. Trying to boot with the technique of 
holding the option key down at startup is pretty hit-and-miss since I'm 
blind and voiceover won't talk until the system boots up. Does anybody 
have an idea why this might be hapening. I can access other system 
preference items; only startup disk seems to be affected. All the other 
drives do show up in disk autility and I can definitely navigate to all of 
them in finder.

Thanks.


-- 
Cheryl

"Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight,
O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer."

(Psalm 19:14: Bible KJV)