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.
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