Hi, When you go into System Prefs, in the Startup Disks pane, with your bootable CD in the drive, do you see it as a startup option? Seeing it in Disk Utility only tells you that the disk is there, not if it is bootable on a Mac.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Daniel Hawkins <computersassocia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Ok, I tried the Disk Utility and I can see the Mac HD drive and Bootcamp, but > not the bootable cd. So I tried the cd on another Windows PC and it worked. > So I went back to my Mac, and tried holding C when I restart. Something > happens but the screen is dark, I think since I don't see light. I acually > let my Mac sit for 15min, just give it time to load. But nothing happens. So > I tried thehard shutdown and restart holding C, still the same thing. SI can > hear the DVD drive spool up and spin for a min then it dies down. > > Do you guys know of another option? I hear that you can hold the Options key > at startup, but I don't know how many times you press the right arrow. > > Any info on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks! > Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > iPhone 4S, 16GB, Jailbroken IOS 7.0.4 > iPad 2nd Gen, 32gb > iPhone 3gs 8gb, as media player > 2012 15in. Macbook Pro > 2.3 Quad-core i7, Turbo to 3.3Ghz > 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 > 500GB HDD > > Dual Boot: > Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit > NVDA installed > > Phonak Compilot > > > > > > On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Best thing to do is to have the CD/DVD loaded into your drive then go under >> the Apple menu to System Preferences and open the Startup Disk pane. Once >> in there, Interact with the Possible Startup Disks Scroll area and choose >> your bootable CD/DVD by pressing VO-space on it. Stop Interacting with the >> Scroll area then press the Restart button in this pane. If the bootable >> CD/DVD does not show up in the Startup Disk pane, then it's not bootable. >> Also, if you know for sure that it is bootable, you can press "c" as the >> startup chime sounds which will force the Mac to startup from a bootable >> CD/DVD. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Daniel Hawkins <computersassocia...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone! >>> >>> >>> I have been reading up on Linux accessabilty and want to give Vinux a shot >>> by running off a bootable CD. So far I figured how to burn an ISO file to a >>> cd, so I hope it is good. But my question is, is the Macbook Pro set by >>> default to first boot from the Optical drive before the HDD? If not, is it >>> accessable to change that? >>> >>> Any info on this would be very very helpful, thanks! >>> Daniel Hawkins >>> - Posted from my Macbook Pro >>> >>> iPhone 4S, 16GB, Jailbroken IOS 7.0.4 >>> iPad 2nd Gen, 32gb >>> iPhone 3gs 8gb, as media player >>> 2012 15in. Macbook Pro >>> 2.3 Quad-core i7, Turbo to 3.3Ghz >>> 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 >>> 500GB HDD >>> >>> Dual Boot: >>> Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit >>> NVDA installed >>> >>> Phonak Compilot >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
