Re: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM...
Powering up with the mouse key held down is common knowledge. Another
variation of it is holding the eject button (while powering up),
although I haven't tried this one with gnu-linux.
Although, there might be a book or a few that list key combinations, you
find these documented at the apple site. That's where I run into them.
There are also mac enthusiast sites that list these, among them "boot
up" key combinations. Google.
On Wed, 2005-23-02 at 09:16 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:13, Joerg Sommer wrote:
>
> > >> [Eject CD]
> > > Try power on with the mouse button pressed.
> > Real? Where are such strange combinations documented?
>
> Mouse button means skip disk in boot going back as far as I can remember (Mac
> LC), but I think I've used it on a Plus as well... I'm not sure about it
> ejecting removable media, my recollection was just that it would skip the
> floopy to boot off the hard drive (or the other way around if the hard drive
> is default). But I'm willing to believe either my memory is slightly wrong,
> or the behaviour has changed :)
>
> As for documentation, I'm not sure. There used to be even more of these key
> combos than there are now -- was it command-option-6 to boot the IIFX from
> its built in rom image of system 6.07 so you could use the floppy for your
> files? Maybe they're documented in the mac bible?
>
> Corrin
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