Re: Startup Disk disagrees with restart options, and restart options is right
Macs R We <[email protected]>
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The whole APFS fire drill has been such a cluster*k. According to experts <https://blog.macsales.com/43043-using-apfs-on-hdds-and-why-you-might-not-want-to?APC=XLR8YourMac13>, you're only supposed to use APFS on internal SSD drives, and nothing else. That having been said, I have no idea why your external won't boot. I have an HFS+/GUID partitioned rotating external (one historical OS version per partition) and High Sierra boots from it just fine. I sympathize with your plight, but I can't say I'm surprised by it. I avoided upgrading to Sierra until High Sierra came out, and I may repeat that pattern with High Sierra. > On Feb 28, 2018, at 9:12 AM, Michael Brian Bentley <bentley-2O0ZWvXUCaBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had a heck of a time getting the Ts crossed and the eyes poked (ow!) installing High Sierra on an internal OWD SSD and all the external backup drives such that they all boot. i'm almost done. It's taken several days. APFS has been a chore. > > I have a 4TB external hard drive that has High Sierra installed, is an HFS+/GUID drive. It shows up in Preferences>Startup Disk as bootable. It does not show up in the restart options menu, and the MBP doesn't boot from that drive when selected via Startup Disk. > > Anyone know what's going on with this? Regrooving a 4TB drive is tedious. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk