March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
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Booting from Another Device
Boot and run your Mac from another device, whether it’s an internal hard drive or an external FireWire drive.
I was thrilled to have the chance to try out a seed build or two of Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) before final release. That is, until yet-unnoticed bugs with the Quartz rendering engine turned my screen to mush and compatibility problems with some of my old settings rendered an application all but unusable.
Thank goodness I’d not actually installed the prerelease on my iBook’s hard drive, but was running it from an external FireWire hard drive. A quick reboot and I was back to my trusty 10.1.5 partition running on my internal drive.
Macintosh makes it easy to boot from another device. No need to
fiddle with a BIOS or horrid boot.ini files. And
absolutely no need to unplug one drive to have the Mac recognize and
use another.
To boot from another device, make sure it’s plugged in, is recognized by Mac OS X, and has a bootable partition containing a usable operating system. Shut down your Mac (Apple menu → Shut Down). While holding down the Option key, turn on your Mac. You’ll be greeted with the screen shown in Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1. Booting from another device
I have only one partition listed, despite having an external FireWire drive plugged in; the FireWire drive doesn’t have a viable operating system on it at present, so it is excluded from the list ...
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