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From: Juan I. Cahis on 27 Apr 2010 15:53
Dear friends:

Is there a list of all the different alternatives at boot time, when
booting Snow Leopard? Yesterday, I pressed inadvertently the Shift key
when booting, and a thermometer indicator appeared and took half a
minute to complete its process, but no message appeared telling me
what was it happening.

I know that if you press "Alt" at boot time, you can choice among the
different partitions to boot from, but which are the other
possibilities?

Thanks a lot again.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
From: Jolly Roger on 27 Apr 2010 18:01
In article <3qfet5d2d9055h7v9j7kag4dt9oe3o9b8r(a)4ax.com>,
Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote:

> Is there a list of all the different alternatives at boot time, when
> booting Snow Leopard? Yesterday, I pressed inadvertently the Shift key
> when booting, and a thermometer indicator appeared and took half a
> minute to complete its process, but no message appeared telling me
> what was it happening.

What you seem to describe is the standard firmware update progress
indicator. You probably installed software updates without restarting at
some point, and the firmware update installed after you restarted.

Holding Shift during startup boots in Safe Mode, which is unrelated.

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From: Malcolm on 27 Apr 2010 18:07
On 2010-04-27 15:53:35 -0400, Juan I. Cahis said:

> Dear friends:
>
> Is there a list of all the different alternatives at boot time, when
> booting Snow Leopard? Yesterday, I pressed inadvertently the Shift key
> when booting, and a thermometer indicator appeared and took half a
> minute to complete its process, but no message appeared telling me
> what was it happening.
>
> I know that if you press "Alt" at boot time, you can choice among the
> different partitions to boot from, but which are the other
> possibilities?
>
> Thanks a lot again.
>
> Thanks
> Juan I. Cahis
> Santiago de Chile (South America)

<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343>

From: D Finnigan on 27 Apr 2010 18:14
Juan I. Cahis wrote:
>
> I know that if you press "Alt" at boot time, you can choice among the
> different partitions to boot from, but which are the other
> possibilities?
>

Command-S - Single-user mode
Command-V - Verbose mode

Command-Option-P-R - Reset PRAM
Command-Option-O-F - Open Firmware console

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From: nospam on 27 Apr 2010 18:26
In article <dog_cow-1272406465(a)macgui.com>, D Finnigan
<dog_cow(a)macgui.com> wrote:

> > I know that if you press "Alt" at boot time, you can choice among the
> > different partitions to boot from, but which are the other
> > possibilities?
> >
> Command-S - Single-user mode
> Command-V - Verbose mode
>
> Command-Option-P-R - Reset PRAM
> Command-Option-O-F - Open Firmware console

no more open firmware with intel macs.

option key brings up a boot volume picker
c key boots from a cd/dvd
d key boots the diagnostics
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