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From: mjb@cs.brown.edu (Manish Butte)
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Subject: Re: Booting from external drives...
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Date: 9 Mar 91 21:41:49 GMT
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Since the question of booting from external drives has been brought up, I have a question which has been plaguing me for a while.  I want to force booting from an external hard drive (assume there is an internal hard drive as well) given that there is also a floppy inserted in the internal floppy drive.

I know command-shift-delete upon startup boots from an external drive (which one, I'm not sure), but it doesn't work if there's a floppy in the floppy drive.

The Startup Device Control Panel also doesn't override the presence of a floppy.

Any ideas/help?

Manish Butte
mjb@cs.brown.edu
manish@brownvm.brown.edu