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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: DCJ001 on Sep 23, '08 12:28:25PM

If this hint is about the volume (disk) which boots by default, and not the audio volume at startup, wouldn't this normally be set using the "StartUp Disk" preference?



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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: barefootguru on Sep 23, '08 02:00:40PM

Yeah, that's why this is a hint--it's another, hidden, way of accomplishing the same thing.



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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: DCJ001 on Sep 23, '08 07:08:07PM

I was under the impression that Mac OS X Hints is for things that people would like to do with a Mac that they thought that, currently, cannot be done; not to show additional, more complicated ways of doing the things that can already be done.



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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: jiclark on Sep 23, '08 08:58:58PM
What a weird concept! There are many ways to do any given thing on a computer, precisely because we all have our different styles, whether they be learning styles or working styles. How could you argue that it's somehow bad to educate people about new ways to do things??

I can imagine a circumstance where it would be extremely convenient to be able to change the default boot drive, right from that little pre-startup screen. If we weren't supposed to post hints like this, we'd lose a lot of what I've gained from this site over the years...

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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: robg on Oct 07, '08 09:18:24AM

Mac OS X Hints runs tips about OS X and its apps that may not be obvious or documented -- regardless of whether there's a documented way to do the same thing or not.

-rob.



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Set default startup volume from boot volume screen
Authored by: kirkmc on Sep 24, '08 12:33:35AM

Disks and volumes are different things. A disk can contain several volumes.

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