Testing the Fleck post function
Aaaaah, mu MacBook Pro came back to life after about 3 hours of panic. Scott Rafer helped me with the brilliant suggestion of starting up in ‘save mode’. That worked!
Aaaaah, mu MacBook Pro came back to life after about 3 hours of panic. Scott Rafer helped me with the brilliant suggestion of starting up in ‘save mode’. That worked!
There are at least 3 different magic key combinations to throw at it. I don’t actually know them all offhand, but one of the important ones:
hold the power button down long enough so that the sleep indicator starts blinking. You’ll get a very scary beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep but if your hardware is on the fritz that can help.
the other one is just ‘option’ – sometimes the boot device configuration gets confused.
The third one resets the PRAM. It’s cmd+shift+alt+ctrl+P except not with quite that many modifiers.