2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Rob
Hi, I need to know that if I start my MacBook with command+R, Will there be speech in Recovery mode? And, if I change the boot drive to a external USB drive and restart, and the drive is not bootable, will I get stuck without speech or will it convert back to the internal harddrive? There is

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Answers below: Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 26, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Rob musicmaker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to know that if I start my MacBook with command+R, Will there be speech in Recovery mode? • Yes, just press cmd-f5 after a while and VO will work. And, if

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Hall
Recovery mode does speak, though it uses Ralph or some such voice and sounds bad. Still, it is fully accessible, yes. As to your second question, I’m not sure. If you set the target disk in System Preferences startup Disk, you should be fine. I’m not sure how you would boot an unbootable

Re: 2 questions about MacBook

2014-01-26 Thread Terje Strømberg
If get into problems, turn off the mac with the physical on switch, then turn it on again, press and hold down the option key when you hear the start up sound, and hit enter after a while. You should now hear VO. This is if you get a black screen. Otherwise vo-command+home and hit enter should