Prevent starting up to time machine drive

Question

Level 1

0 points

Prevent starting up to time machine drive

Hi,

I recently added an SSD to the mini 2012 running Yosemite. SSD is now boot disk and I use the apple HDD in the dual bay as a media drive plus time machine backup.

The problem I have is that the mini boots into time machine in recovery mode every time I reboot even if the start up volume is Macintosh HD on the SSD. I then need to select the correct volume from the Startup options. Is it possible to stop it booting into the time machine volume by default?

Thanks

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 2012, time machine

Posted on Sep 26, 2015 4:55 AM

Reply

Answer 1

den.thed

Level 9

77,380 points

Sep 26, 2015 5:20 AM in response to idomz

After your started up from the SSD, go to: Apple > System Preferences > Startup Disk > select the SSD volume as the startup disk > click Restart...

Reply

Answer 2

idomz Author

Level 1

0 points

Sep 27, 2015 1:30 AM in response to den.thed

Hi,Thank you for your response.

I do have the SSD as the startup disk in preferences. But when I restart the system, it still boots into Time machine volume in the internal HDD first.

Not a big concern as this is now a media server and hardly has to restart but struggling to understand why this happens. Does time machine volumes get first preference in the boot sequence?

Reply

Answer 3

lllaass

Level 10

210,417 points

Sep 27, 2015 2:17 AM in response to idomz

Please provide a screen shot of what System Performances>Startup disk shows and of what Disk Utility shows

Reply

Answer 4

den.thed

Level 9

77,380 points

Sep 27, 2015 7:48 AM in response to idomz

I agree with IIIaass, it is impossible to know what the problem is without seeing more because we are not sitting in front of your Mac.

---------------------------------------------------------------

I have dual drives in my 2012 Mac Mini, a 240GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. I have disconnected all of my external FireWire and USB backup drives to help keep the confusion to a minimum.

So that now in my Startup Disk Preference, we only see my Macintosh SSD and my Macintosh HDD.

Both my SSD and HDD are bootable. When I originally installed the SSD and formatted it, I named it Macintosh SSD to help me easily identify which drive was which. I used CCC to clone over everything except for my iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie media libraries from the HDD to the SSD. My HDD is still bootable because I left OS X and everything else intact on it.

---------------------------------------------------------------

What we need to see is what your Drives look like in Disk Utility, including the Disk Info at the bottom.

Plus the information for the SSD drive at "About This Mac > System Report > SATA/SATA Express" is also very useful.

Reply