When the going gets weird - Mac Mini
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 01:23:24 UTC
OK, so I installed 13.1 i386 on an ancient Mac Min Core2 Duo but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to eject the CD using a standard PC keyboard connected to that machine. That means it boots into installation media every time. I've scoured the web for what keyboard magic will do this, but it appears that OSX has to be installed for any of them to work. So, I interrupt the boot loader and got a list of the known disks, on the theory that if I can manually force booting from he internal drive I can use BSD commands to kick the installation media out of the drive. So... I'd appreciate help with two issues: 1. Once I am in the boot loader at the OK prompt I see two drives I see the boot drive I want: disk0s1a What is the magic incantation to force the loader to boot off the drive? 2. Once I have FreeBSD running off the internal drive, what is the magic incantation to eject the installation medium? Stupid Apple and their infernal need to make everything moron-proof makes things worse Grrrrrrr.... TIA,