Thanks for the tip. I sort of knew that already, but I've always been curious if hitting left arrow would wrap to the bottom of the list. For example, in my case, if I wanted to boot from my external drive, rather than hitting right arrow 3 times and then pressing enter, would hitting left arrow and enter accomplish the same task. It's not that hitting right arrow 3 times is difficult or anything, but if there's a way to speed up the process, that would be great. Also, is there a way to rearrange the order, so that maybe the recovery partician could be last? In all the time I ran regular Lion, the recovery partician wasn't an issue; I could hit right arrow twice to boot from my external drive, but once I got ML, I found out quite by accident that the recovery partician is now in the way. I'm very accustomed to selecting the drive I want to boot from, but will still very much appreciate any additional tips you might be able to provide. Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 7:22 PM To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Option Key Startup With the help of a sighted neighbor I was able to sus out the following about the option key startup options. This may be useful for others wanting to have a degree of certainty when booting by this method Pressing and holding "option key" for a good, healthy 10 or 15 seconds after powering on brings up a drive selection screen with (in my case at least) the internal Macintosh HD highlighted. There is an upward pointing arrow below the currently selected item. Pressing right arrow once brings the highlight to the Recovery partition, and a second right arrow brings me to the first (and only) external bootable drive. pressing return here boots the mac from the external bootable drive. The selection highlight "wraps" back around to the first item in the list of drives after the last is reached, so it is important to know how many bootables you have - you can't rely on just slamming the cursor to the right and pressing enter to boot from the last item. I imagine if there was more than one external bootable partition these would be listed - but in what order I do not know. In my case at least, I now know with certainty that two right arrows and a return key will boot from my SuperDuper bootable clone from the drive selection screen. A little educated guesswork and I imagine anyone could figure out the order of their system bootable drives as well. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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 [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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/>
