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LeeM
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15th Oct 12 at 22:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just got round to burning a ubuntu live cd, when i hold C on my macbook it loads to a black screen with flashing white underscore. any ideas?
AlunJ
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16th Oct 12 at 07:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That's strange, if you leave it it doesn't load? What should happen is a screen comes up with the macintosh hd and whatever disc you have in, click the one you want and away you go.
Try resetting the nvram by pressing option - cmd, p & r on startup, hold it til you hear the chime again. Then try again.
LeeM
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what do i press to get that screen? i thought it was just c to load from cd and d to load from disk drive
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hold down option key while booting to get drive select screen

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US



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LeeM
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nope, just shows the sad, no cd listed but its spinning up

 
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