Misadventures in Tech

Should you ever happen to find yourself the owner of a macbook pro laptop with a nonfunctional built-in keyboard, here's what not to do:

Don't try to set it up to dual-boot with another OS.  Especially not Windows.

Even if it works at first, once you get a blue screen of death on startup you are fucked.  Macbook pros do not seem to recognize external keyboards prior to the OS starting.  So you can't switch your windows partition into safe mode, you can't select an alternate partition to boot from, and you can't even tell it to boot from a rescue CD.

I just salvaged mine by temporarily borrowing my boyfriend's functional built-in macbook pro keyboard and swapping it onto this machine long enough to select the OSX partition to boot from.  It's working fine now, but I really don't like having to do hardware transfers to take care of something that should have entirely been a software issue.  From now on, I'll stick to running the bootcamp Windows partition through VMware rather than trying to run it directly.

PS: This also means I have internet access from home again.