Donna, I am not sure exactly what is wrong or why you cannot get out your dvd. If you can boot the system I would open terminal from the utilities area and run the following
sudo eject /dev/cdrom and see if that doesn't help. Keith Watson 813-760-1381 Sent from my iPhone On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> wrote: > Because I can neither install from my SL disk, nor get the Mac to reinstall > Lion. I don't know what else to do, and I'm unable to eject the SL disk at > all. > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > >> Hi Donna, >> >> Unfortunately, there's no way to physically eject the disc without having >> the machine turned on, since the only way you can do it is with the eject >> button. Also, why would you need Apple to reinstall the OS? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:39 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Is there a manual eject button anywhere on the MBP? >> >> Hi all, >> >> OK, since I seem to be out of options here, I don't know what to do except >> take the MBP into the Apple Store and have them reinstall the OS. But I >> don't want to travel with a DVD in the drive. Is there a manual eject >> button anywhere on this thing? >> thanks, >> Donna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
