M2 Mac Studio running Ventura 13.6.7. Want to boot with Sonoma by holding option key and selecting Sonoma partition. System skips over that screen and just boots into Ventura which is my usual start up disk. I know I can manually set the start up disk but wondering why holding option key no longer works?
Mac Studio (2022)
Macs with Apple Silicon chips cannot get to the startup manager that way.
Shut the Mac down. Turn it back on and hold the power key. You will eventually get the startup manager.
I only do that if I want to run in Safe Mode. It's much faster to choose the other bootable volume in System Settings and restart.
With due respect by friend 😎
Once the user reaches this point in the process
Does this not imply some type of Keyboard or Mouse to perform this action
Just to add
A Mac Studio M2 is a headless computer and comes without a Keyboard or Mouse
If using a Bluetooth Apple Keyboard
Suggest cabling the keyboard to the computer
Reason, the Bluetooth Kernel may not load fast enough to allow the keyboard to function during this process
Cabled keyboard should work
Er, yes, I already described the only way to get there was by shutting the Mac down. Then turning it back on and holding the power key in.
I was responding to your reply:
Suggest cabling the keyboard to the computer
Reason, the Bluetooth Kernel may not load fast enough to allow the keyboard to function during this process
Cabled keyboard should work
I could only assume after seeing my first response you were implying a cabled keyboard would allow the user to do an Option key startup on an Apple Silicon Mac. This cannot be done.
A cabled keyboard won't make a difference. An Apple Silicon Mac will not pay attention to the old Option key startup.
Go it. 👍 😀
Hope, I have not caused OP some confusions here
Option key not showing startup disk options on M2 Mac Studio
