rtgrc@ultb.UUCP (R.T. Gayvert) (11/21/89)
The Floppy Drive in My Mac IIx has recently (last night) gone belly up with a horrible clattering and chattering. I removed it and it's attached cable to get it repaired, but lo, and behold, the boot sequence will not find my external LaCie 80MB Fixed Disk. Reconnecting the Floppy Drive to the Mac causes the Mac to boot normally. Is there any magic CMD-Shift-Option type thing that is going to let me tell the mac that there is not, and will never be an internal floppy to boot from, and to go ahead and look for a fixed disk startup volume. System Spec. Mac IIx w 4MB, 80MB LaCie External, 8bit Color. Thanks in advance for any help. Tom Ridley Software Engineer RIT Research Corp TRRRC@VAXD.ISC.RIT.EDU (716) 475-7041
meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu ((get rid of that UUCP thing) Paul Eric Menchen) (11/25/89)
My mailer was mean and zapped this, but someone wrote, and I summarize: > My floppy died and I want to boot from a hard drive without the > floppy even connected. Is there some magical Cmd-Opt-Shift key > sequence I can use to get the Mac to ignor the fact there is no > drive ... (terribly summarized) You can hold down the mouse button during start-up. This ejects a disk from the drive and I've used it to bypass bad drives. They were still physically connected to the mac, so this might not work, but it's easy to try. Paul Eric Menchen meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu