Wait a few seconds before pressing the keys, to give your Mac more time to recognize the keyboard as it starts up.Then press and hold the keys as your Mac starts up. Then press the power button to turn on your Mac. Be sure to press and hold all keys in the combination together, not one at a time.If a key combination doesn't work at startup, one of these these solutions might help: Eject (⏏) or F12 or mouse button or trackpad button: Eject removable media, such as an optical disc.Disabled in macOS Mojave or later, or when using a firmware password. Command-S: Start up in single-user mode.To use the default boot image on the server, hold down Option-N instead. N: Start up from a NetBoot server, if your Mac supports network startup volumes.Or use Option-Dto start up to this utility over the Internet. D: Start up to the Apple Diagnostics utility.If your Mac is using a firmware password, it ignores this key combination or starts up from macOS Recovery. Option-Command-P-R:Reset NVRAM or PRAM.If your Mac is using a firmware password, you're prompted to enter the password. Option (⌥) or Alt: Start up to Startup Manager, which allows you to choose other available startup disks or volumes.macOS Recovery installs different versions of macOS, depending on the key combination you use while starting up. Or use Option-Command-R or Shift-Option-Command-R to start up from macOS Recovery over the Internet. Command (⌘)-R: Start up from the built-in macOS Recovery system.Every new and refurbished MacBook Air comes with Photos, iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, and buying an Apple wireless mouse and keyboard makes it easy to navigate through all these programs. Protect your MacBook Air with a laptop case and invest in AppleCare for MacBook Air for extra peace of mind. Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard. Here's a list of commonly used keyboard shortcuts. You can press key combinations to do things on your MacBook Air that you'd normally do with a trackpad, mouse, or other device.
Keep holding until the described behavior occurs. But that's not an ideal solution, i'd rather run a direct, native server.īSDPy does not support diskless netbooting, so that option won't work.To use any of these key combinations, press and hold the keys immediately after pressing the power button to turn on your Mac, or after your Mac begins to restart.
I am currently playing around with running 10.11 in a virtual machine on my laptop. And I tend to work on older computers more than new, so I still need NetBoot for years to come. I know Apple may be working towards killing NetBooting entirely, but it's not dead yet. I did some googling but only found solutions that support NetInstall, and not diskless-NetBoot images. DHCP is easy enough to replace I'm sure, but NetBoot serving doesn't seem as straight forward. Or what is more often the case, on wifi-only networks, I just plug in directly mac to mac and use DHCP service also running on my laptop. I run this on my laptop, plug into someone's network, and BAM. I use NetInstall images too for installing the OS but I primarily use Diskless NetBoot images to diagnose and repair disk problems. I fix Macs for a living and have been using Netbooting for 10 years as my faster, better version of booting a customers Mac off a USB utility disk. This won't affect 99.5% of people but I'm in the minority. Apple has removed, among many other things, DHCP serving and NetBoot Serving from their 'server' app in conjunction with the new OS.