Shortcut for startup on one hard drive

Hi all,
I have two hard drives,one has OSX 4.0 and the other OSX 5.0
Does anyone know the Keyboard shortcut to bring up the startup volume screen so I can decide which volume to boot up from? Thanks for your help, Web dude

Hi
Thanks Malcolm. A friend gave me a 120GB drive with OSX 10.5 already installed and all I did was put it in my G4 and it works fine. I have OSX Tiger on another drive.
Best regards
web dude

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