Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Hi, You need to tell your Mac that the .sh file type is to open in Terminal instead of TextEdit. I’ve sent you a note privately to help with this. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

In addition to creating a shell script textt file, it must be given permissions to operate using this command: chmod file-name The numbrs allow all permmission functions to be linked to the file, it can use other numbers to limit which functions and to whom permission is given to use/mod

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Tim, Not sure I did this right. Should the .sh file have the following line of text: sudo bless -mount /Volumes/MacCatalinaOS -setBoot Or should it be something else? When I VO + space on the .sh file it just opens the file. Dave Carlson Farfar, Engineer, Oregonian, Woodworker, and Pioneer

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Tim, You are a breath of fresh air and knowledge. Thanks for putting my mind at rest on how to do this. I’d never had known about this stuff. Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Pioneer, Musician, Engineer, and Farfar On Sep 15, 2021, at 10:08 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi Da

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Hi Dave, To get quickly to Terminal, you can press cmd-shift-u when in the Finder, which will take you to the Utilities folder, then press t e r, as in the first three letters of the app named Terminal, then press cmd-o to open it. Alternatively, you could place a shortcut to the Terminal on y

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Tim, Excellent information. Since I’m very new to any terminal stuff, may I ask a couple more questions? 1. How do I get to the terminal command line quickly? 2. If I do use the pseudo bless command string to designate my other volume to be the next boot, will that be a permanent change, or wi

Re: Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

Hi, Using Terminal is probably your best bet. See this link for more details: http://www.robertopasini.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/556-osx-setting-the-startup-disk-using-terminal If you

Direct Access to Startup Disk Dialog in System Preferences

I use the Startup Disk Dialog often to switch back and forth between Mojave and Catalina. Is there a way to put a shortcut or alias on my desktop to quickly access this dialog? Or even better a rapid way to switch between the OS options? They are on separate partitions on my hard drive. Dave Ca