If you get a black screen, your disk is not bootable. Hold down your option after hearing the start up chime and hold it for a minute to be sure. Press the left arrow one time if you dont have more bootable disks. In OSX the boot drive should be formated as journal extended or something if you want ot do a clean install.
Take care 21. feb. 2014 kl. 22:47 skrev Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com>: 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. 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