The right arrow will boot in to the lion recovery, try the left arrow instead, that's what I use and it works. On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my > external drive, it was fairly simple. I just > held down the option key as I turned on my macbook, waited about 15 seconds, > released the option key, pressed right arrow and > enter. Now that I have done a clean install of lion on my macbook's main > drive, this no longer works. There are still some > tasks that either I can't figure out how to do in lion, or that simply don't > work, so I still want to boot into SL quite > often. I've got my SL install fully up-to-date and everything on my external > drive, but now when I perform the above steps, I > seem to be booting into the recovery partitian instead. I know I can go into > system preferences and change the startup disc > there, and I'm happy to do that, but was just wondering if there is a > quicker, easier way. Also, if I ever get bootcamp up > and running, what is the procedure for avoiding that stupid recovery > partitian, and how do I choose whether I want to boot > into mac or windows? > Since I've gone to all the trouble of doing this clean lion install, I'm > going to try and stick with it, but I still find the > OS to be quite yucky when compared to SL. > Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide, and I'm sure I'll have > more questions as I continue trying to get this > thing up and running. > Missy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
