OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
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Keystroke
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Description
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| Press X during startup | Force Mac OS X startup |
| Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup | Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk) |
| Press C during startup | Start up from a CD that has a system folder |
| Press N during startup | Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot) |
| Press T during startup | Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode |
| Press Shift during startup | start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files (Mac OS X 10.2 and later) |
| Press Command-V during startup | Start up in Verbose mode |
| Press Command-S during startup | Start up in Single-User mode |