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I'm running El Capitan Public Beta on an external drive and have run into a strange, to me, situation.
Booting to the external drive works fine unless I've powered off. In that case powering up and holding the Alt. key only comes up with the internal drive as available. When the OS on the internal drive, Yosemite, boots up it still doesn't see the external drive unless I unplug it and then plug it in again. At that point I can "restart" and hold the Alt key and then boot to the external drive. Is this how it is supposed to be? If the internal drive dies or isn't bootable will the hardware then see the external drive?
Cliff
Booting to the external drive works fine unless I've powered off. In that case powering up and holding the Alt. key only comes up with the internal drive as available. When the OS on the internal drive, Yosemite, boots up it still doesn't see the external drive unless I unplug it and then plug it in again. At that point I can "restart" and hold the Alt key and then boot to the external drive. Is this how it is supposed to be? If the internal drive dies or isn't bootable will the hardware then see the external drive?
Cliff