We’ve compiled a list of the most commonly asked questions we get, and the answers to them: read our super FAQ to see if you’re covered. OS X supports a narrower range of standard keyboards during startup than it does when all the drivers load for OS X later in the process. This can also happen with other Bluetooth keyboards, or even non-standard keyboards. Plugging it in via the USB-to-Lightning charging cable solved the problem, and allowed it to be recognized and used during the startup process. In his case, he was using a recent Apple Wireless Keyboard. So you can pointlessly hold down a key or a combination of keys, and nothing happens at startup, but then you have full keyboard access when it’s time to enter a password or use arrow keys or the Tab key to move around the login screen. OS X doesn’t always recognize keyboards at boot that it does when you reach the login screen. He wondered if some IT person in his firm had managed to install a bypass, but I had another idea. (Apple has a list of all commands it’s surprisingly long.)īut it wasn’t working for said reader. OS X has a variety of keyboard combinations you can press to invoke different modes on startup, like Command-R for OS X Recovery, which boots from a special partition and lets you run Disk Utility and Terminal. A minor puzzle arrived from a reader who was trying to choose his boot drive by holding down the Option key at startup.
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