Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!aplcen!aplcomm!aplvax.jhuapl.edu!gersh From: gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: booting without my hard drive Summary: How to boot without mounting Keywords: hard disk, booting Message-ID: <3778@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> Date: 2 May 89 12:54:46 GMT References: Sender: news@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu Reply-To: gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (John R. Gersh) Distribution: usa Organization: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Lines: 16 In article md32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Joseph Darweesh) writes: >I have a Rodime Internal hard drive in my Mac II and I was wondering >if there was a way to boot without the harddrive beeing acknoleged by the >computer. Anyone out there know??? Hold down command-option-shift-delete while booting from a floppy. The hard disk will not mount. - John Gersh --------------------------------------------------------------------- gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu {backbone!}mimsy!aplcen!aplcomm!gersh The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD 20707 (301) 953-5503