On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:04 PM, insightinmind wrote:
> > > On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > >> >> >> On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:40 AM, insightinmind wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I'm not sure that the Quicksilver will even consider a 'Firewire' >>>> drive when looking for possible 'boot' partitions. >>> >>> Startup with alt/opt held down, my QS 2002 did this just fine using >>> the onboard FW connection to an external OWC FW case containing a >>> 750GB Seagate with multiple partitions, one being an OS X Tiger >>> 10.4.11 partition, another a Leopard 10.5.4. >> >> But that wasn't what was describes as an attempt. >> What he tried, was to disable the internal HD, to force finding >> something on the Firewire. > > The startup process using alt/opt stops and lets you select (or not > select) the startup partition ... so isn't this equivalent to > disabling (or not booting from) the startup partition that is on the > internal drive? If not what you wanted, then search on ... > He described what he DID, we agree as to what he wanted to accomplish, I'm not sure that the Quicksilver's will look at 'Firewire' during a 'Start from scratch' --- 'no defined boot location' --- search. I do know that the 'Start from scratch', will find and start from an OS9 partition in preference to an OSX one. [Not like Wintel, where it will only look at and boot from the first sector of the first hard drive.] Chuck D. > Bill Connelly > artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio > myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
