as long as you know the boot order you can use a scheme like that to determine the boot OS. Problem is, yours is not a typical boot order, usually its Mac OS, then Recovery, then bootcamp. But it could be any order depending on various factors. Usually Mac OS X comes up when booting a mac.
One way to do things is to try various arrow keystrokes at the boot screen and see where you wind up, then write down the results. A little experimentation I suppose will give you your Mac’s boot order and then you can use the method described below.. Of course, all this is rendered moot by VMWare Fusion which lets you command tab back and forth between OS X and windows with no rebooting. I like fusion for the ability to cut and paste data between OS’s and such things as that. I can have Safari and internet explorer open at the same time and use them interchangeably etc, can’t do these sorts of things with a bootcamp installation, but each to their own. > On Dec 26, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Rob <mr.robertc...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Logging into windows just to turn around and log in to the mac and vice versa > is too much. > here is a quicker way. > Here is the steps I used. > when I start the mac normally, windows would start. > Here is how to choose the drive you want. > Start your Mac, at the sound press and hold the option key about 10 seconds. > For me, windows was listed first of the three drives. > > 1 windows > 2 recovery > 3 Mac. > to select the Mac drive, I would press left arrow then enter, > or > press right arrow once for recovery and right arrow again for Mac. > the reason for this is windows is the first choice and is selected. pressing > left arrow will wrap around to choice 3 which is the Mac. > > I hope this helps. > and if your drives are listed differently. you will have to experiment a > little. > Thanks, > Rob > > On 12/26/2014 5:36 AM, denise avant wrote: >> Hello all, >> Now that I have bootcamp up and running on my mac, I am looking for >> instructions on how to reliably switch back and forth from the mac side to >> the windows side on my macbook air. I have yosemite and windows 7 installed >> using bootcamp on a macbook air 2013. Any guides or podcast links would be >> greatly appreciated. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
