Another problem I am having with my c500. Supposedly, I should be able to make it boot from a CD rather than the hard drive, by holding down the C key during the earliest stage of booting. I am quite sure that in the past, this worked. But now, it doesn't seem to work. If I put a bootable CD in the drive, and hold down the C key, it still boots from the hard drive.
I can get my machine to boot from a CD by disconnecting the hard drive, but this rather defeats the point. I've tried using the "Startup Disk" control panel to specify the disk in the CD drive, to no avail. Last night, I created a bootable RAM disk (using the Memory Control Panel to create the RAM disk, using the System 8.6 CD to install a system on that disk, and then using Startup Disk to specify the Ram Disk) and this worked exactly as expected. But this is rather a lot of trouble to go to whenever I want to boot from something other than my hard drive. As long as a bootable hard drive is present, my machine seems to be entirely unwilling to boot from a CD. Any ideas? -- -- "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community." -- The "Boulder Pledge" by well-known movie critic Roger Ebert -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
