07-27-2021, 06:55 AM
pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=jdc]
[quote=pRICE cUBE]
It will search for this external every time on restarts and after shut down?
nope. Been able to boot from external for 20 years. I linked to a 1 TB, but any size is fine.
Who shutdown/restarts anymore? pfft. waste of time. Put it to sleep at night if its a thing.
The friend is not technologically adept. If it isn't the default drive after restart, shut down, kernel panic, then I would have to intervene every time.
Unless things have changed radically over the years, you should be able to use the Startup Disk system preference to select the external boot drive, and as long as it's powered on, it should boot from it on restarts and power ons.