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Running Mac OS X Tiger
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Running Mac OS X Tiger

by Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix A. Boot Command Keys

It seems like the people who truly know how their Mac works inside and out can do odd things with it by holding down a key, or a combination of keys, as the machine boots. Table A-1 lists the known boot keys that can be used when Mac OS X is starting up.

Table A-1. Keyboard shortcuts used for starting, restarting, logging out, and shutting down

Key command

Description

C

Holding down the C key at startup boots from a CD or DVD (useful when installing or upgrading the system software).

N

Attempts to start up from a NetBoot server.

R

Resets the display for a PowerBook.

T

Holding down the T key at startup places your Mac into Target mode as a mountable FireWire drive. After starting up, your screen will have a blue background with a floating yellow FireWire symbol. Target mode makes the hard drive(s) of your Mac appear as mounted FireWire drives when connected to another system.

To exit Target mode, press the Power-On button to turn off your Mac. After your Mac has shut down completely, press the Power-On button again to restart your Mac.

X

Holding down the X key at startup forces your Mac to boot into Mac OS X, even if Mac OS 9 is specified as the default startup disk.

Keyboard shortcuts used for starting, restarting, logging out, and shutting down-S

Boots into single-user mode (something you’ll only need to do when troubleshooting your system, or if you’re a system administrator).

-V

Boots into verbose mode , ...

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