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Re: Predetermined Boot Order?

On Jun 5, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Sergio Trejo wrote:


On 6/5/06, Matt Rosenberg <email@hidden> wrote: On Jun 5, 2006, at 3:57 AM, Simon Slavin wrote:

>
> On 5 Jun 2006, at 11:26am, Sergio Trejo wrote:
>
>> I also could not find anything documented beyond what I had found
>> about the "predetermined" search order. It would surely be nice to
>> know how the order is predetermined.
>
> Doesn't matter.  Since it's not documented, it can change in the
> next version.  Since it can change, you can't depend on it staying
> the same.

It's worth considering that the "predetermined search order" may be
as simple as: internal disks, external disks, and NetBoot. (Or even
just local disks, then NetBoot.)

Matt, when you say "local disks" you mean all disks physically attached to the machine?


Yes.

I have no particular reason for thinking this is the actual search order. I was just pointing out how simplistic it could be and still meet the dictionary definition of "predetermined".

If you want to do some experimenting, there's a startup keyboard shortcut which tells the system to use any boot volume except for the designated one. I believe it's shift-opt-cmd-delete. You could try using that with various bootable devices available and see what happens.

Matt


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