Kevin
If you hold down shift when restarting it will "safe boot" which I
suppose is a close equivalent. An important aspect of this is that it
runs a set of maintenance routines while doing so (can take a while)
which often sorts out problems.
Drew
On 11 Dec 2005, at 10:16, Kevin Clark wrote:
What is the OSX equivalent to holding down "shift" in OS9 to boot up
with
minimal extensions? I've tried holding down Option (alt) but Tiger
10.4.3
starts up, shows the little spinning circle & apple logo, and then
shuts
down after 5 minutes. I have an iMac DV/400.
Also, when I connect my external firewire disc the iMac searches the
disc
for ages before I get a multi-language "Restart" message. I've updated
the
LaCie firmware on the external, and I even installed OSX onto the
external
to boot from and I still get the "restart" message after a few minutes.
Any suggestions please? Thanks!
Kevin
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