View Full Version : Any way to disable keyboard and mouse check on boot?
planktonamor
February 22nd, 2009, 06:40 PM
Anyone know of a way in OSX to disable the check for keyboard and mouse? I have my mini setup to move to a couple locations within the house (extra power, audio and dvi cables). But I don't want to move the keyboard/mouse. I have googled all over and can't find an answer on this. The apple remote does nearly everything I need, and VNC can do the rest from my macbook pro.
Thanks in advance.
divide0
February 23rd, 2009, 05:26 PM
Google worked for me.
From http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/apple/use-your-mac-mini-as-a-media-server-part-1/ :
"""
The one wrinkle in this magic kingdom of remote elegance is that Macs require input devices to completely boot. By default, if they don't find any input devices connected, they will scan until they are bluetooth in the face or until they find an input device to pair with, thus interupting the boot process if you have no Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Luckily, this can be overridden in System Preferences.
Go to the "Bluetooth" section and uncheck "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at startup when no input device is present". Now, you should be able to restart without that annoying setup wizard spinning its wheels for hours and hours.
"""
planktonamor
February 23rd, 2009, 05:41 PM
Thanks very much. I feel like a dope not finding that. Worked like a charm!
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