[The Jackalope]

Ok, I just got a panicked call from my mom saying that she can't restart into X from OS9. I told her to look under the startup disk control panel and she tells me that there is only the normal HD and Network, but no OS X startup option. I personally dumped 9 years ago and don't remember how to do this. A little help here?

[Corys]

I think holding down the X key at startup will force boot of OS X, assuming there is a valid system on it.

[gethigh]

Originally posted by The Jackalope:
Ok, I just got a panicked call from my mom saying that she can't restart into X from OS9. I told her to look under the startup disk control panel and she tells me that there is only the normal HD and Network, but no OS X startup option. I personally dumped 9 years ago and don't remember how to do this. A little help here?

The Hard Disk should have a little "arrow" thing to the left that when clicked will show below a subsection of choices. There should be two choices: OS 9.x.x and OS 10.x.x .

If this doesn't happen then something is definitely wrong with OS X's system folder(s).

[Art Vandelay]

Originally posted by Corys:
I think holding down the X key at startup will force boot of OS X, assuming there is a valid system on it.

If that works, once she is booted up she will need to select the OS X folder in the Startup Disk pane. Otherwise, the next time she boots, she will boot into OS 9.

[BurpetheadX]

If all she sees is the HD and network, sounds to me she's using pre-OS 9 like 8.5 or 8.6. The older Startup disk control panels just show the drives and network, but no triangles. They will not see OS X.