On 03/11/2013 09:33 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:

Hi Jóhann,

These are great links, thanks!! So to summarize:

On 03/11/2013 05:11 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

1.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx

The last case these guys go over is the one we care about. They
consolidated all the options into a single 'boot options' menu. Their
solution is instead of triggering the boot options menu during boot,
that you click on a button in the desktop UI that reboots you into
'advanced startup' mode which shows the boot menu by default.

Sounds like the most elegant solution and should be used as a fallback/rescue mode encase something comes up for desktops.

Basically do what Lennart has been suggesting along with borrowing from OS X to play an sound ( startup tone ) when you should press a ( startup ) key but have very limited key combo, if anything other then a single keypress to get you to that "advanced startup" mode/target.

2. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1533

They appear to have an entire menagerie of keys you can press during
startup to access various modes and controls. Seems very un-Apple like
though to have so many different modes...

Here's a more complete list [1] kinda shows that to many key-combo options at bootup aint that pretty:)

1. http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/startup-keys-boot-options/