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From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Booting
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Date: 17 Mar 91 12:34:03 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.041307.23955@cs.ucla.edu>, lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
> 
> Is there a way to get a "clean" boot of the system without inits or
> cdevs?  I.e. booting as if the only thing in the system folder were
> the System and the Finder.  This would be very helpful if the system
> fails to boot because of problems with one of the inits (a problem
> I am having now).  Any keystroke to do this?

Under 6.0.x systems you'll need some kind of INIT manager to do this.  Most
(all?) of them have a "disable everything" key.  Many INITs watch the
mouse button and/or the shift key and will not load if you hold either
of these while booting.  Some watch other keys (or don't offer a "don't
load" feature), so holding the mouse button or the shift key won't stop
them from loading.

Under 7.0, hold the shift key when you boot and you'll get "Extensions Off."
in the Welcome to Macintosh window.  "Extensions" means all the extra things
that normally get loaded when you boot, including: Macsbug, extensions
(formerly known as INITs) in the Extensions folder, control panels (formerly
known as cdevs) in the Control Panels folder, and any extensions/control
panels in the System folder.  Really useful if the last skanky thing you
downloaded decides to crash your machine when you reboot.

Good luck,

Greg Marriott
Blue Meanie
Apple Computer, Inc.