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Can I boot to a different Mac OS X partition from the command line?
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Mar 15, 20263693 viewsConfidence Score0%
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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…
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reboot --to "Mac OS X 10.5"
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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…
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