on 1/27/05 10:17 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 1/28/05 12:53 AM, Kurt Bigler didst favor us with:
>
>> on 1/27/05 8:15 PM, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/27/05 9:01 PM, Mark Lilback didst favor us with:
>>>> Holding the mouse/trackpad button down at boot will eject the disc.
>>>
>>> However, this is one of those little-known things often referred to
>>> euphemistically as a "power user technique." Pretty much everyone can figure
>>> out how to eject a disk with the eject key. ;-)
>>
>> Yes, and I can no longer find this little tidbit in the manual that came
>> with my Mac.
>
> Mac Help in Panther says holding down the mouse button during startup will
> eject removable disks. It might allow you to insert one as well.
Mac Help doesn't help much when you can't boot your computer.
>> Seems to me it used to be there. Isn't it a basic necessity?
>> I've never had much of a problem and not needed to do it.
>>
>> The eject key doesn't help you a bit to get a CD in in time to boot from it.
>> You might think you could eject, insert the CD, and boot again, but there
>> are cases when that doesn't help, such as when the hard drive is the startup
>> disk, and will start to boot but then crashes. Something like this has
>> happened here several times over the last several years. I know I've
>> absolutely depended on the mouse button, and not knowing about it is a poor
>> reason to take the system in for repair when all you had to do was run First
>> Aid off a CD, or reinstall a system.
>
> There's a different obscure trick to forcing it to boot from a CD: Hold down
> the C key during startup.
Holding down the C key does not cause the drawer to open so you can insert a
CD. (In any case it certainly does not help you insert a *different* CD.)
Also holding the C key is far from obscure. A good fraction of newbies
learn how to do this, in my experience here.
-Kurt
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