While it is possible to select the boot device from System
Preferences, what happens of that boot device fails? I would like
it to failover to specifically a partition that is bootable but
which I, as the sys admin, determine order-wise.
The only way to ensure this is to ensure that all the other
partitions are not bootable. There is only one setting available for
boot selection: the currently selected device. It doesn't store a
list to walk through.
While you may have an observable behaviour right now, that behaviour
is not documented anywhere (I know of) so it might change with future
versions of Startup Disk or the computer's firmware.
Simon
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Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
Psychology Department
University of Lancaster
