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> Just hold down option at boot time, and select the drive you like from the list. This would not work on M1 Macs. First: because they've changed keys .It's
by lovelyviking 6y ago
> Just hold down option at boot time, and select the drive you like from the list.
This would not work on M1 Macs.
First: because they've changed keys .It's no longer 'option' key. It's 'power key' holding long enough.
Second: because when M1 Mac fails to load Recovery Options it would also fail to load this 'boot options choice screen'.
It's not like with previous Macs.
So you stuck there until you connect to another Mac and use Apple Configurator and pray it works. Iv'e spent 3 hours making it work and I Cann't reproduce the steps. Those listed in official site did not work for me. And Apple Configurator seems to have own bugs I've encountered.
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- lovelyviking 6y ago>This would not work on M1 Macs. This one too get downvoted??? Seriously??? It's stating facts what actually have happened. Dang, can we stop bullying on this site when facts are presented even if Apple guys do not like it? I am getting sick of it really.
- m463 6y agoSo the traditionally the option-key menu is a firmware menu, while the recovery partition is loaded from the disk or ssd. Are you saying the new macs don't have firmware separate from the ssd? With everything more integrated and optimized I would believe it, but it would be a big change with respect to admin and diagnostics.