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Choose your MacTels boot partition via remote

Posted in Apple by Dan at 9:05 pm
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Using a non-apple keyboard with your MacTel? Notice how pressing and holding the option key doesn’t work? To select your Mac boot drive with the Apple Remote simply press and hold the included remotes “Menu” button just after you hear the startup chime of your Mac. Then when the startup drive selections appear use the “forward/backward” buttons to select the corresponding volume and then press “play” to boot from that volume.

3 Responses to “Choose your MacTels boot partition via remote”

  1. Art says:
    6/6/2006 at 10:51 pm

    awesome

  2. Nic says:
    6/7/2006 at 4:01 am

    Who figured this out!? that is a fantastic tip, someone post to http://www.macosxhints.com

  3. .: UNEASYsilence :. » Free your Front Row Mac says:
    6/26/2006 at 1:39 pm

    [...] It is really cool to have a remote control for your Mac, although it doesn’t do much except run FrontRow and set your Intel Mac’s boot drive. [...]

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