FG
💻 Software

Can I boot to a different Mac OS X partition from the command line?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20263693 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

I need to test some software (nightly) on 3 Mac OS X versions: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 -- the software interfaces with the hardware, so non-native solutions (like virtualisation) are not ideal. So I figured the best way to test the software (which is automatic by the way) is to have a partition for each v…

Error Output

reboot --to "Mac OS X 10.5"

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: Can I boot to a different Mac OS X partition from the command line?

Low Risk

I am not aware of any application that can do this, but doing some research there is 2 suggestions. Firstly use AppleScript to select the startup disk. The basic idea is using the following you can select the boot partition and then reboot. do shell…

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment