On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 10:16 PM, Robert Schenk wrote: > An Apple dealer has 'confirmed' to the Campaign for Digital Rights (CDR) > that attempting to play the latest Celine Dion CD in a new iMac will > result in the machine having to be sent for repair.
Before I believe this, I want to see it confirmed that the machine can't be started up with the following standard ways to work around a bad disk: hold the mouse button down at startup to eject removable media on newer machines hold down option at startup to get System picker dialog drop into open firmware by holding command-option-o-f at startup and eject the CD or choose an alternate startup disk from there if a SCSI startup drive is installed press command-option-shift-delete-# to boot from SCSI device number # There are probably other ways to do this that have not popped into my head. --- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502.852.6826 FAX: 502.852.7132 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
