Saturday, September 02, 2006

Useful startup (boot-time) shortcut keys
















There's a couple of important shortcut keys when you boot up your Mac:


1. Holding down Option shows the boot menu so you can specify booting from a CDROM or USB/Firewire disk (picture shows bootup menu when inserting the Mac OS X Install Disc and holding Option key down on boot-up).

2. Holding down SHIFT ejects any discs in the drive.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

You, lifesaver, you!

I screwed it up... have my first MacBook for two days. Booted from Ubuntu CDROM... didn't boot Mac OS anymore.

Now it does! Thanks!

Melle

Unknown said...

posting from "not a mac"


thanks for the tip, btw....


Hey, Im a pc... but im fit, I enjoy combat shooting sports, Im a democrat and I love art museums. all meaningless...

Macs are waay too much like women... beautiful and amazing, completely, utterly incomprehensible once you step behind the curtain, take the red pill, go down the rabbit hole.

uglph... I just threw up. just a bit. ok no more metaphors.

I fix pcs, and they break all the time, so business is good! took a mac client. just a hard drive. no big deal. WRONG!!! 64 screws later, I was crying into a box of tissues at my shrink's office. Really.
Now, the crying is over, the machine is done, but a botched install (bad disk two) and I am left with an vestigial install... a half formed voldermort that exists, less than spirit, less than... ulgph... bile again...

then you came along, and dawn has never looked so good!!

Thanks for the "option" tip. damn, macs are soo weird. why cant the option screen be black and chunky and communicate in a way guys understand???

cheers.

jive Turkey said...

What is the key short for powering up the mac from off power.

Anonymous said...

What a great resource!