cannot boot to firewire drive

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Originally Posted by dnanian

OK, then when you hold down Option at power on, it should appear as a startup choice in the page that appears. It doesn't?

No. I'm afraid not.

We're talking about the Alt/Option key between the Ctrl & Command keys, right?

I hold it down, press the power button, it powers on [I'm still holding Opt at this point], then I hear the "ta da" sound. I'm *still* holding the Option key until the account login screen appears.

So, basically, no drive select screen displays at any point.

Whe I *did* manage to boot to the firewire drive [using System Pref/Startup Disk to select it as the Startup Drive], I noticed the "ta da" sound did not play on start-up. So, I'm pretty sure the drive select screen is not displaying when pressing Option.

The only thing I can suggest is, I've got the new(er) slim/aluminum keyboard - could that have something to do with it?

Thx again