Hi, Best thing to do is to have the CD/DVD loaded into your drive then go under the Apple menu to System Preferences and open the Startup Disk pane. Once in there, Interact with the Possible Startup Disks Scroll area and choose your bootable CD/DVD by pressing VO-space on it. Stop Interacting with the Scroll area then press the Restart button in this pane. If the bootable CD/DVD does not show up in the Startup Disk pane, then it's not bootable. Also, if you know for sure that it is bootable, you can press "c" as the startup chime sounds which will force the Mac to startup from a bootable CD/DVD.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Daniel Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > > I have been reading up on Linux accessabilty and want to give Vinux a shot by > running off a bootable CD. So far I figured how to burn an ISO file to a cd, > so I hope it is good. But my question is, is the Macbook Pro set by default > to first boot from the Optical drive before the HDD? If not, is it accessable > to change that? > > Any info on this would be very very helpful, thanks! > Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > iPhone 4S, 16GB, Jailbroken IOS 7.0.4 > iPad 2nd Gen, 32gb > iPhone 3gs 8gb, as media player > 2012 15in. Macbook Pro > 2.3 Quad-core i7, Turbo to 3.3Ghz > 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 > 500GB HDD > > Dual Boot: > Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit > NVDA installed > > Phonak Compilot > > > > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
