did you do Command F 5? > On Sep 15, 2025, at 12:46, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote: > > My very new M4 Mac Mini has stopped working. I started an application, > VoiceOver gave a sputter, and everything died. I tried restarting in the > normal way, even waited for fifteen minutes or so, thinking it might be > recovering and doing a full disk scan, but no go. So, I decided to > investigate how to restart in Recovery/Safe Mode. Turns out, the old Intel > Macs could be started in safe (actually called Recovery) mode if you couldn't > see the screen by repeatedly trying the Shift+Command+R business. The new > Silicon Macs do it differently. You have to hold the power button in until a > start menu appears, then you have to choose the volume. I disconnected all my > external drives--two Thunderbolt data drives and a Time Machine backup > drive--and tried this. Of course, I had no idea when this startup menu would > appear, or once it did, if it did, how to select the one and only volume for > bootstrapping, so I winged it. The instructions further say that once the > volume for booting is selected, press Shift+RETURN to continue. I tried that, > but nothing happened. Unfortunately, the nearest thing I have to a monitor--a > large-screen television with a couple free HDMI ports--is about twelve feet > away, and it is impractical to near-impossible to relocate either the TV or > the computer to connect them with a short HDMI cable. However, I have a long > one--a twenty-footer--whichI could rig up later. But before I do that, if > anyone has any suggestions as to how to try booting the thing and getting > VoiceOver on without the long HDMI cable hooked up, I'd be forever grateful > to know them. > > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/f194ff6c-bec3-42e8-8efe-f3918624bbfd%40noisynotes.com.
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