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Use an advanced recovery mode in DiskWarrior
While it's good to know about holding down the mouse button when booting, it's often better not change the startup disk in System Preferences at all. Holding down the C key when booting tells it to boot from CD. Then, when you're done, just reboot without holding anything down, and it'll boot from HD as normal.
The advantage of that is that if there's some sort of problem and you can't change the startup disk from DiskWarrior, you're not stuck with a machine you can't boot! (As happened to a friend of mine.) One caveat: if your keyboard is wireless, then holding down keys at bootup probably won't work. So don't throw that old USB keyboard away; it's worth keeping handy for situations like this! ---
Use an advanced recovery mode in DiskWarrior
if your keyboard is wireless, then holding down keys at bootup probably won't work.Should work fine with an Apple wireless keyboard on current Macs and older ones with firmware that has Bluetooth support. Originally input wasn't possible in single-user mode (and probably DiskWarrior) with the wireless keyboard on my iMac G5 but that's worked since 10.4.3. Check Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse: Frequently Asked Questions for more info.
Use an advanced recovery mode in DiskWarrior
Just hold down option while rebooting and the Mac will give you a choice of startup volumes…
Use an advanced recovery mode in DiskWarrior
But Disk Warrior is the only CD I can think of I've ever used that boots itself on restart ... unless you take measures (hold down mouse key, whatever.) Way annoying, because I always forget. |
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