No, once it is set, it remains as the drive the Mac boots from until you change it again. On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
> So will the second option, that being the sys prefs allow for the starting up > off the external, each time it’s connected to the machines it’s being used on > or will I have to change it each time I try to start it up. > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2010 9:54 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: booting from external mac drive! > > You have two options. > > Options: > 1. You can hold the option key down at boot and switch between the bootable > devices with the left/right arrow keys. > 2. You can open SYstem Preferences, select the startup disk option, and > choose which volume/device to boot from. > > Option 2 is your best bet . > > hth, > On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > > Hi Listers. > > I’ve just setup with the help of a work mate, a mac os10.6 bootable external > harddrive using firewire 800 as the connection type. > > Now however I’m trying to boot from this external os drive, but must be doing > it wrong. Can anyone else add information to how I boot a mac from this > external drive setup? > > Thanks for any help people can give me. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
