ah. Thank you very much! I will give that a try. I think I can adjust to 1 keypress being different. Now, if only all my other lion issues could be solved so easily. (grin) Thanks!
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Booting from an external HD in lion Yep. Try pressing the left arrow rather than the right one. Works all the time. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 <http://m.facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1?refid=0> On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my external drive, it was fairly simple. I just held down the option key as I turned on my macbook, waited about 15 seconds, released the option key, pressed right arrow and enter. Now that I have done a clean install of lion on my macbook's main drive, this no longer works. There are still some tasks that either I can't figure out how to do in lion, or that simply don't work, so I still want to boot into SL quite often. I've got my SL install fully up-to-date and everything on my external drive, but now when I perform the above steps, I seem to be booting into the recovery partitian instead. I know I can go into system preferences and change the startup disc there, and I'm happy to do that, but was just wondering if there is a quicker, easier way. Also, if I ever get bootcamp up and running, what is the procedure for avoiding that stupid recovery partitian, and how do I choose whether I want to boot into mac or windows? Since I've gone to all the trouble of doing this clean lion install, I'm going to try and stick with it, but I still find the OS to be quite yucky when compared to SL. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide, and I'm sure I'll have more questions as I continue trying to get this thing up and running. Missy -- 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.
