Lion Asks Me to Select a Startup Disk Each Restart, why?

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Lion Asks Me to Select a Startup Disk Each Restart, why?

Every time I restart LIon, it asks me to select a startup disk, as if I was holding down the option key.

Thing is, I'm not.

In system prefereces, I've selected the internal harddrive as the startup disk, but it makes no difference. It still asks me to choose between the Lion Disk, the recovery partition, and a backup clone I have connected.

Obviously, I want to stop this behavior. How can I do it?

13'' 2.4 Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), Connected to 27'' Cinema Display

Posted on Aug 21, 2011 3:26 PM

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2011 3:27 PM in response to Kevin_C

Try repairing the disk from the Recovery Partition.

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Kevin_C Author

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Aug 21, 2011 3:49 PM in response to Barney-15E

Tried that, disk utility reported no problems, and when I restarted, it asked me again.

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SteveKir

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Aug 21, 2011 3:53 PM in response to Kevin_C

Why do you (apparently) Restart your computer so often? Have you some reason?

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2011 3:56 PM in response to Kevin_C

When you start using it, does it behave like the option key is held down?

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Aug 21, 2011 3:57 PM in response to SteveKir

I don't know whaat gave you that impression, but I don't, actually.

I did a restart today (first in about 3 weeks), and the problem I described happened.

I tried several restarts just to test it out, to see if this was just a one time anomaly, or something more.

Since this is not the default behavior, I want to change it back (and understand why the system began to do this), that's all.

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Kevin_C Author

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Aug 21, 2011 3:59 PM in response to Barney-15E

Good question. No.

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2011 5:12 PM in response to Kevin_C

What does this command (in Terminal) produce:

bless -info

Regardless, you may try this command to set the blessed folder:

bless --folder "/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootinfo --bootefi

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2011 5:17 PM in response to Kevin_C

Ignore. Double post.

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Aug 21, 2011 5:44 PM in response to Barney-15E

I get:

finderinfo[0]: 116 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices

finderinfo[1]: 280701 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

finderinfo[2]: 0 => Open-folder linked list empty

finderinfo[3]: 0 => No alternate OS blessed file/folder

finderinfo[4]: 0 => Unused field unset

finderinfo[5]: 116 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices

64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xD30F967B6B2A99DF

Anything off there? (I not only want to fix it, but understand what's wrong)

Does that mean I should try the second command?

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Barney-15E

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Aug 21, 2011 6:38 PM in response to Kevin_C

That's what it is supposed to say.

I tried the command, and it didn't work. Some things may have changed. Try,

bless --folder "/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootefi

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