[tafticus]

Is there a way to make my iBook boot into open firmware automatically? I've enabled the open firmware password though the Apple application. There used to be a program called Startup Security which would do this, but it is no longer available...

[Art Vandelay]

There is probably a way to do it, but why?

You can try changing the Open Firmware variable "auto-boot?" to false. I haven't tried this, so do it at your own risk.