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Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP?
Date	2017-02-24 17:16 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<ehb83pF1djdU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<XJudnWYNKY-UjC3FnZ2dnUU7-RXNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1n1y052.1iiqg5o1jvdu4N%nmassello@yahoo.com>

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On 2017-02-24, Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>
>> On a very old (early 2008; A1260) 15" MBP, holding down C key while 
>> powering it up does not boot up from this connected USB device. Holding
>> down option key, while powering on, does show the connected bootable USB
>> PNY 64 GB flash drive with its El Capitan Mac OS X on screen. I also can
>> select to boot it as well.
>> 
>> Does this old MBP model not support C key while powering on to boot? 
>
> Contrary to Apple's support page
> (<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255>), my experience is that the
> C key only works for optical drives. Other types of local devices
> require the Option key. 

That's been my experience as well. I was surprised to see Apple stating
C works for anything *but* optical drives.

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Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-24 04:55 -0600
  Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-24 08:57 -0700
    Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-24 17:16 +0000
  Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-24 13:01 -0500
    Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-24 11:21 -0800
      Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-25 07:07 +0000
        Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-25 00:53 -0800
          Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-25 13:58 +0000
            Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-26 12:50 +1300
            Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2017-02-28 16:25 +0100
              Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-28 12:52 -0500
  Re: Unable to hold down C key to boot an old 2008 MBP? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-25 07:04 +0000

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