Key Command For Mac Restart Bootcamp Snow Leopard
I have Windows 7 installed on a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro. According to Apple's, pg. Select an operating system during startup You can select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key. This displays icons for all available startup disks and lets you override the default setting for the startup disk that is in Startup Disk preferences (OS X) or the Boot Camp control panel (Windows), without changing that setting.
1 Restart your Mac and hold down the Option key until disk icons appear onscreen. 2 Select the startup disk with the operating system you want to use, then click the arrow beneath the icon. I'm finding that holding down the option key has no effect -- the machine boots into whichever OS was last running.
This is true whether I'm starting from the shut-down condition, or restarting. I've tried hold down each of the two option keys and I've tried holding down both at once.
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I've tried pressing the keys from before the startup chime and just after. The only way I've been able to control which OS starts up is to restart from the Boot Camp control panel in OS X in either OS. Any thoughts on how to get the machine to behave as described in the docs? I've had similar issues: while I was holding the key, the system would do as if if didn't recognize the keyboard(I'm on a iMac, with Bluetooth connection between the computer and the keyboard). On the contrary, with a usb port keyboard, it worked anytime! (but that wasn't practical to plug another keyboard) I understood that you have to be sure that the Bluetooth connects. So this is how to do it: • while the computer is off, let's make sure that the keyboard is also off (for example, by pressing its own power button) • Now let's put the keyboard on: if the keyboard was off, it will search for a new connection - the green light of the keyboard must blink • Then you can turn on the computer and follow the clear instructions from above ('resetting NVRAM').
Windows 7 64-bit via Boot Camp with Snow Leopard. Mac OS X includes a utility called Boot Camp which allows you to dual-boot your machine between OS X and Windows.
I suggest that you hold the option key (ALT) directly after having push the computer start button, so that the Bluetooth connects directly. That works everytime. I'm using a wireless keyboard / mouse (if it matters). I found that I had to plug my dongle into a certain usb port, or these startup keys would not be received by the computer (even though I could use any of the ports post boot). I also seemed to have better luck based on the timing of when I pressed the key(s).
Doing it as soon as I heard the chime worked more reliably then holding it down before the chime even went off. I can't confirm that 100%, but it's worth a try if you're banging your head against the wall! I had this very same problem on my older MacBook laptop running bootcamp to dual boot both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 and I couldn’t get to Windows 7. To make it worse I can’t login to OS X either cause I haven’t used it for so long cause Windows runs great on a Mac that I forgot all my passwords.
The only way I got it to work was to remove the hard drive and after a few tries booting the laptop I was able to boot from Snow Leopard DVD and went into startup disk and set to boot from Snow Leopard DVD and restarted and powered it off and put my hard drive back in and from there was able to go back into startup and set to boot into BootCamp and am able to boot into Windows with no issues. I still have issues with alt key but I just use Boot Camp Control Panel to select which one I want to boot and ok with that work around.