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tcawrse05
Jan 30, 2009, 03:56 PM
ok I have a mac mini (first time user) and I'm liking it so far ... until now ... I tried to install windows 7 beta w/ bootcamp and when it restarted it told me to choose boot type 1 or 2 and now the mac won't accept input and I can't get the CD out so I could start my mac up like normal is there a manual override to eject the CD?



tcawrse05
Jan 31, 2009, 04:57 AM
I was also just wondering if there was a way to prevent the CD from booting up first ... you know w/ PCs you can go into the BIOS and have the CD boot up after the hard drive, I think that would also solve my problem ... I think I'm just going to put windows 7 beta on my laptop instead (it's a dell).

fishkorp
Jan 31, 2009, 12:13 PM
Hold down the Option key on boot, you should get a screen to choose if you want to boot from CD, OS X partition, or Windows partition (if you already made it).

tcawrse05
Feb 1, 2009, 02:41 AM
Hey Thanks a million I have a logitech keyboard and sometimes the buttons are switched around for mac settings but the alt button did the trick ... thanks for the idea