Server upgrade didn't go well
Posted by Wesley on
The keyboard commands to force booting to the optical drive refused to work, so I had to take the Mac mini apart, physically remove the hard disk, and force it to boot from the OS X install DVD. After that, I set the boot drive to the optical drive, turned the system off, reassembled it back to the way it was, and started installing OS X 10.4 from scratch. Using the archive-and-install option, the old installation was saved for later recovery of data.