Saturday, December 14, 2019

Booting up a Mac from the USB flash drive



Is it possible to boot from a USB flash drive on a Mac?



Current setup is an iMac (early 2008) running Snow Leopard. What do I need to do to have the Mac boot from the USB stick?


Answer



Yes, you can change the device in Startup Disk preferences, or hold the option key when booting to access the Startup Manager and select your volume as the boot device.




More info and necessary requirements for the device can be found here (apparently the method is the same for powerpc based Macs).


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