Jeff: After you make the drive bootable, go in to system preferences, startup disk and choose the drive.
Once you restart, wait for a couple of minutes, command-F5 and you are on your way. John On Jul 28, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Geoff Waaler <geoff.waa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Esther and others, > > Once my $6 8GB sd card arrives from Amazon, I intend to use that media to do > a clean installation of ML. > >> From a little Googling, I learned that holding the option key during >> power-up presents a menu of bootable media. I assume this menu would be >> presented before VO starts, so I'm wondering if there is a way (other than >> trial and error with the arrow keys) to bypass this menu and boot from my >> MBP's SD card slot, as one can for the DVD player via option-c? > > TIA and best regards. > Geoff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Esther > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:41 PM > Subject: Re: Putting Mountain Lion on a bootable USB memory stick [was > Re:burning mountain lion to disk] > > > Hi All, > > The Apple Recovery Disk Assistant method is useful because it will work for > systems which come with the operating system (either Lion or Mountain Lion) > already installed -- for example, if you buy a new Mac, and want to make a > bootable recovery disk. The method of using SuperDuper! to make a bootable > USB memory stick (or SD card, as Shaun asked about) requires you to have > purchased and downloaded an update from the Mac App Store. > > The information on using SuperDuper! can be found on John Panarese's > MacfortheBlind.com site: > http://macfortheblind.com/how-to-for-the-Mac-and-OS-X > Look under the heading "How To Make a Bootable Lion Install Disk on a USB > Thumb Drive" > > Another interesting point that Shaun's question about using an SD card > reminded me of -- the recent MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models come with an > SD card slot, so using this as a boot drive is particularly simple. In fact, > there's an interesting KickStarter project on for "The Nifty MiniDrive". > It's for a device that lets you insert MicroSD cards into this slot, so you > can carry additional storage capacity with you in a way that sits flush > against the edge of your laptop, rather like the Sim card slots in the iPad. > This has the largest potential advantage for MacBook Air users, since the > hard drive storage capacity can't be increased after purchase. They design > this for MicroSD cards so you can carry the cards entirely inside the laptop > without having regular SD cards extend outside the opening with the danger > that they will snap off if you leave them in the slot. At present you can > buy 64 GB micro SD cards that work in the Nifty Minidrive, but the MicroSD > card forma t > i > n principle can be made for up to 2 Terabyte capacity. > > If you're interested, here's the URL for the Kickstarter Nifty MiniDrive > page: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342319572/the-nifty-minidrive > They've already raised pledges for 300 times their funding goal of $11,000 > to make the device, and there's 5 more days to still accept project backers. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > >> On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: >> >>> That's exactly what the recovery tool is for Sarah. It isn't necessary to >>> pre-format the drive as the partition is written block by block when you >>> attempt to write your boot device. Sean, Try the recovery tool and point >>> it to your flash card and see what happens. If the flash card isn't listed >>> in valid install devices, then it isn't going to work. >>> >>> Gordon > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. 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