The following BIOS commands have been tested on Intel-based Mac® Mini target servers and Mac Lion® servers running Mac Snow Leopard®. The servers were attached to a KX III with D2CIM-DVUSB and D2CIM-VUSB CIMs. See below for the supported keys and any notes.
Keystroke |
Description |
Virtual Media CIM |
Dual Virtual Media CIM |
Mac Lion Server HDMI CIM |
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Press C during startup |
Start up from a bootable CD or DVD, such as the Mac OS X Install disc |
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Press D during startup |
Start up in Apple Hardware Test (AHT) |
May need BIOS Mac profile for the mouse to work |
May need BIOS Mac profile for mouse to work |
May need BIOS Mac profile for the mouse to work |
Press Option- Command-P-R until you hear startup sound a second time. |
Reset NVRAM |
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Press Option during startup |
Start up in Startup Manager, where you can select a Mac OS X volume to start from |
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Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse button |
Ejects any removable media, such as an optical disc |
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Press N during startup |
Start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot) |
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Press T during startup |
Start up in Target Disk mode |
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Press Shift during startup |
Start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items |
Known issue with LION to boot to safe mode. "Safe Mode" in red does not appear for Lion |
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Press Command-V during startup |
Start up in Verbose mode.admin |
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Press Command-S during startup |
Start up in Single-User mode |
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Press Option-N during startup |
Start from a NetBoot server using the default boot image |
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Press Command-R during startup |
Start from Lion Recovery1 |
N/A |
N/A |