Randomly asks to choose disk and network at startup
Just like the subject says. It happens about one startup/reboot in ten; the gray screen, before getting to the Apple logo, asks me to pick a disk (only choice: my Macintosh HD) and a network (only choice: none, I have a wired network, and the Mini's Airport is off). My mouse (plain 3-button + scroll, no driver) is 99% non-responsive during this time. Once I make these "choices" (via keyboard), everything starts up and runs as it should.
I'm posting this in this forum because this is my fourth Mac, and I never had this problem with any of the others. And this Mac has been fine, other than an incurable Energy Saver issue (see that post to see everything else I've done to this point).
It's my mid-2010 Mac Mini (post-refresh). I was using it as my HTPC, and it worked flawlessly. I repurposed it as my own personal Mac. I erased the HD and reinstalled everything from scratch; performed all of the updates (OS X and everything else); and imported my user account from another Mac (running the same OS, 10.6.7).
What's causing this glitch? What else can I do to eliminate it, or at least troubleshoot it better?
I discovered that the above behavior is identical to the OS X Startup Manager being invoked at startup, i.e. holding down the Option key during startup. Except, I'm not touching the keyboard when it happens. Either my keyboard throwing random Option-key inputs, or something else is going on.
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