what is "boot driver", and how do i "make sure i have chosen the Boot Driver during installation" of a new program?
i have scoured the internet, but it seems that everyone else already knows all this and is seeking more complicated info!
so a simple explanation for a low-tekki such as myself would be much appreciated! 🙂
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
What program are you trying to install? There should be no reason to concern with the boot disk or boot driver unless you're trying to install OS X or Bootcamp
What program exactly do you want to install?
hi,
i no longer need to install any programs at the moment,
but still would like to know what is this "boot" driver and disk about? And is it one of several on the mac system? 🙂
I do not know what you mean.
Bootdriver is what makes a drive bootable.
Example: you want to format a disk, either internally or external, then you format/erase it, so that it can be used afterwards. But there is a difference when formatting when you want to install OSX on that drive: then you must not only format it but make it bootable, so that you can start from it.
Thus you may get a message when you make a bootable stick (with DiskmakerX for example) for installing OSX on your computer, or when you make a clone to a disk that should be bootable afterwards (with CarbonCopyCloner for example).
You do not have to do anything special for that.
Lex
thanks! 🙂
so is the boot drive on the Mac OS the one that is initially there when i bought the new computer, ie. entitled "(my name)'s macintosh?
(and any other drive would be only what i might insert as a portable zipdrive or CD?)
answer is yes, unless you specifically make the "portable zipdrive" bootable.
You can see all bootable drives (with an operating system on it) in
SystemPreferences->StartupDisk.
YAAAAAY thanks!
that's exactly what i was trying to find out! 🙂
what is "boot driver", and how do i make sure i have chosen the Boot Driver during installation of a new program?
