[CUBE] OT: Magic start-up keys

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-03 17:14, "Joost van de Griek" <joost at jvdg.net> wrote:

> On 2003-03-03 17:06, "Brooks Graham" <brooksgraham at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Being fairly new to the Mac world, I've noticed that there are a bunch
>> of key combinations that, if pressed at startup, will do some nifty
>> things.  ("C" will boot from CD-ROM, Command-Option-P-R will "zap" the
>> PRAM, etc.)
> 
> "T" will start up in FireWire Target Mode, "N" will attempt to boot over the
> network, "X" will start Mac OS X even if your PRAM is set to boot OS 9,
> Command-V will start up in verbose mode, Command-S will start in single user
> mode, Command-O-F will boot to Open Firmware.
> 
> That's the ones I know.

Oh, forgot one. Command-Option-Shift-Delete will bypass the internal hard
drive at start-up. Can be used to force a boot from an external drive.

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