How to boot up from firewire disk?

Hi everyone,
I just bought a 250Gb Lacie D2 triple interface external hard drive to go with my 15" 1.25ghz G4 powerbook.
I partitioned the External drive into two volumes, one of which I will reserve exclusively for backing up my entire Powerbook hard drive.
I used the software (Silverkeeper) that came with the Lacie disk to copy the powerbook hard drive onto the Lacie disk. When I commenced the copying, a dialog box asked me if I wanted to make the copy 'bootable' I clicked yes.
Now for my question..... How do I boot up from the copy???
I had assumed that if I switched off the powerbook & then re-started it, (with the Lacie disk connected... Firewire 800) that I would then be given the option of booting from either the Powerbook hard drive OR the Lacie hard drive. Not so.... Powerbook booted up as per normal, having 'recognised' the Lacie disk & placed it's icons on my desktop.
Obviously there is a simple step I am unaware of, probably holding down a combination of keys whilst re-booting???
So....How do I boot up from the copy?
regards
Ian
15 Powerbook 1.25Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1.25gb ram

Well to be accurate it is not at all "permanent" - a better and more usefully accurate term would be persistent.
If you are updating the OS on it you might want it to persist through reboots vs using the very time consuming Option key method each time.
To go back to the original boot disk or any other one just go to preferences and select the one you want again. Much faster.

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