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From: meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu ((get rid of that UUCP thing) Paul Eric Menchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Running IIx w/o Floppy Drive
Summary: Try holding down the mouse button
Keywords: Start-UP Hard Disk, Bad Floppy
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Date: 25 Nov 89 05:33:24 GMT
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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