Alex, I think you can restart the machine while holding the OPTION key down. I think that that will give you a list of systems that you can boot from...you'll see a hard drive with the "OS9" logo on it, if memory serves. I know it works when you have external firewire drives attached. Michael On Jan 14, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail wrote: > My problem is that the iBook boots to OSX now as this is what I chose > in the startup disk control panel in 9. But OSX presented with a login > window and I would like to now start back from 9, otherwise with the > CDROM not working and no password for OSX, I won't be able to do > anything with it.