A Word of Caution - photomacuser

Hold down the mouse button immediately at start-up to eject the DVD OR use the Eject key on the keyboard. If you have a third party keyboard, use the F12 key. I don't recall the previous versions having this problem. You can also hold down the option button at start-up and it will allow you to choose which drive to start from. Do your best to avoid opening your computer. BTW, there is also an option to include "Eject" in your menu bar. Download the freeware Onyx and go to Parameters>Finder. There you will see a check box to add Eject to your menu bar.

Hope this helps.

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Friday, July 27 2007 @ 10:10 AM PDT

A Word of Caution - alanthing

You could have held down the Option key during the start up chime. That would've brought up a boot menu with your internal hard drive and the DVD in the drive. From there, you can eject the disc, or choose the internal hard drive. Then you go to the OS X System Preferences > Startup Disk and choose your internal hard disk instead of the DVD.

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Friday, July 27 2007 @ 11:34 AM PDT

A Word of Caution - JRietz

FWIW, a DVD or CD should eject if you hold the mouse button (left) down while booting. Also, restarting with Option down should get you into open firmware where the eject key on the keyboard should work.

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Friday, July 27 2007 @ 12:56 PM PDT