Hi, For testing purposes, why not simply go under the Startup Disk pane of System Prefs and select your USB drive. If the System on the drive is blessed properly, then it will show up in the Startup Disk choices.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-20, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > HI List, > > If I have an external USB HD connected to my Mac, and it is the only external > device I have connected, which arrow keys and how many times must I press > them after I have held down the option key at start up? So far I keep > managing to boot to the recovery partition or to my Macintosh HD but never to > my external HD. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my external HD's > connectivity or I'm just missing it each time, so want to try and make sure > I'm doing the right thing. > > And, yes, just to be clear, I do have a bootable duplicate of my Mac on its > very own partition on my external HD. It should be working fine, but I just > want to test it so I can have some peace of mind. > > cheers, > Nic > > -- > 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.
