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
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