Automatically List Boot Volumes when Powered on...

I have a new 17" MacBook Pro and I use boot camp with it. Is there a way to mimic holding down option to list the boot volumes when I power on instead of holding down the Option key everytime...

I believe rEFIt lets you do this
http://refit.sourceforge.net/

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T60: "Unmountable Boot Volume" when I try to boot up.

Hi !
Last night, when I've been working on my T60 all day, i wanted to restart my computer before I was burning a CD.
And now my computer can't boot, there comes a Blue screen just before my windows vista-login, and right after it has loaded the first bit of windows.
The blue screen says "Unmountable Boot Volume".
Then I've tried to run the Lenovo Recovery Tool (Recue and Recovery 4), but it's not able to find my windows installation or harddrive.
I've tried to boot from a Ubuntu Live CD, and there it is possible to find my harddrive and all of my files.
Does anyone know a way, to fix this problem, so that I can come back to my Windows.
Best Regards
Martin
Message Edited by zmaller on 06-13-2009 05:17 AM

Make sure that the Time Capsule is not backing up at the time.
On you Mac....open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utiltiies > AirPort Utility
Click the Disk icon at the top of the window
Click the Disks tab just below the Advanced icon
Click Disconnect All Users
That should reset things and allow backups to start again and run normally.

P35 neo cold boots twice when powered on or warm booted

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what is happening with this board, when I turn on my computer it automatically shutsdown again for a sec or two and then comes back and boots ok. It does that also in a warm reboot.
I've seen similar issues in other forum threads, but it's unclear the reason, I found opinions saying it's a power supply issue, others a boot check in the chipset does, and also bios related issues. I tried it in every possible way, the only fixed configuration was:
- power cooler 500w psu
- msi p35 neo
- intel e4400 core 2 duo
with combinations of:
- memory
- ocz ddr2 800 system elite (4 sticks 1gb each)
- single ocz 1gb stick
- two sticks
- no memory
- video
- pcie msi nvidia 6200tc
- old trident pci graphics card
- no grachips card at all
- hard disk
- western digital 80gb sata2
- no disk
Also tried all the BIOS settings available to be enabled/disabled, hopelessly lost some more time with bios rev. 1.2, (other tests where with rev 1.0)
The board is stable once it's up and running, but it's the first time I own a computer that has that strange behaviour and I don't know if I should return it or it is normal.
Can someone please help me understand what's going on and point me to a solution?
Thanks,
Sebastian.

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what should i do...
First of all: Start your own topic.
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.i updated the bios from live update 3 utility
You should not use MSI Live Update to update your BIOS. That is very risky. Next time, use this tool instead:
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
That is in your own best interest, believe me.

Intel iMac Randomly restarts, and delayed boot-ups when powered on from off

First, bought the iPod (20gig w/ photo display). Love it. Still use it. Never a problem.
Then bought a MacBook in '06. Love it. Only a few problems along the way but easily fixed.
So, based on that, bought the 20" aluminum intel-iMac (2.4GHz, 2GB memory, 320HD)in October. Loved it. Never a problem. Not one. Until...
...I installed Leopard. What a headache. I've solved all of the problems with help from the forum etc. except one:
iMac waits 3-20 minutes before it feels like "waking up" after I've powered it on, and when it does finally boot-up into OS it restarts upon a whim, sometimes after half an hour or so and sometimes after just a few minutes. Problem.
After searching the discussions and reading through the posts I can't find a solution.
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Thanks for the reply, Dennis.
I was able to try the SMC instructions and use Disk Utility before posting my question. It didn't help.
Since posting my question I talked to the Apple guys where we purchased our iMac and after discussing the problems they're quite certain it is a hard drive problem. I take it in tomorrow.
The problem with my post is that I left out the most glaring symptom (good thing I am not a doctor).
My Mac's start-up disk is not named "Macintosh HD". It was. Now it is named ""?????????. So, even though both "Repair Disk" and "Apple Hardware Test" came up just fine, no problems, there is something wrong with my Startup Disk. I had hoped upgrading to Leopard using the "erase and install" method would fix the problem. It didn't. And I just now brought the iMac to its original "Tiger" state and the startup Disk is still called ""?????????. The Apple guys say HD problem. They'll figure it out for certain on Monday.
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I replaced the battery on my RAID card, when I booted my mac pro up, I get the folder with the question mark. I used a boot USB drive to boot and when I looked in the RAID utility, my RAID 5 volumes were no longer showing, advise.

I replaced the battery on my RAID card, when I booted my mac pro up, I get the folder with the question mark. I used a boot USB drive to boot and when I looked in the RAID utility, my RAID 5 volumes were no longer showing, advise.
Ernest

Not sure if I'm following you. I have 4 hard drives installed on my Mac Pro. I had a RAID 5 configured and functional for about 5 months. My battery died on the RAID card. I replaced the battery, seated the RAID card back in the slot I removed it from. When I booted to the USB drive to look in the RAID utility, I could see the battery is charged but my volumes are not showing.
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Automatic task list delete selection when UD is reject

Dear Experts,
I created calibration plan for Quality Istruments, for that assign equipment task list . At due date calibration order & inspection lot created. I sent the insturment to vender & some time it will be rejected fr vender side .We want to set delete selection automatically in task list header data when I made usage dicision as a rejected after come in factory.
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Avinash.

hi
Iam not sure ,just check with abaper whether it is possible with creating new function module.Try to create a Function module and assign the same in IMG for inspection lot completion for follow up action for usage decision and assign the same in the selected set
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5530 XM: Volume automatically gets high/low when c...

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When I am calling or getting called my phone automatically turns up/down the volume till maximum.
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Even if I don't change the volume it automatically turns up.
When the phone reaches maximum volume it always 'beeps'.
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Looking forward to hearing from you!
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You may try the Soft Reset by dialing *#7370# followed by the Security Code (Default is 12345 ) when prompted.. If you have set your own code, enter that instead.. Be cautioned that this will erase all data from the Phone memory.. so back-up your data before doing this.. You will need to restore the data and MAY need to re-install some of the applications after this...

Hi, when powering up my macbook pro, when the apple symbol appears the screen flashes pink, can anyone advise whats up?

Hi, when powering up my macbook pro, when the apple symbol appears the screen flashes pink, can anyone advise whats up?

You can try a system reinstall:
Reinstalling Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.

HP DV7-7338ea Windows 8 Unmountable Boot Volume BSOD

The product concerned here is a HP DV7-7338ea with operating system Windows 8. I have been using it for just under 11 months and bought it with Windows 8 installed.
Problem descrpition:
I recently installed a new sound update for my laptop. I was promted to restart and once that happened, I recieved a BSOD with the error message: unmountable boot volume. When that happens, it restarts and goes into "preparing automatic repair" mood after which the screen goes black and the windows cursor shows and then that's it. I am left with no options or anything. I have tried pressing F11 on start up and then it says "please wait" and goes back to the same black screen. I have left it on for over an hour but it just remains there until my computr switches itself off for overheating (this has never happened before). I haven't recently installed any thing new apart from the HP update. Please help as I do not know what to do now. I have not backed up my files yet and they are too important for me to loose. Thanks
Update:
I ran a system check and it said the Hard Drive Short DST failed. Does this mean I have lost my files? The laptop had been operating very well until this latest HP update which may have corrupted my hard drive.
This question was solved.
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A harddisk short DST fail means that either your harddrive is failing or have failed alltogether.
If you're still under warranty, contact your retailer or local HP store and get a replacement harddrive that you can switch yourself or have it sent in for service.
If you have an IT knowledgeable friend you might be able to salvage some of the data on the computer.
You can try removing the harddrive frmo your computer and connecting it to his.
Please let me know how it works.
AlHaste - HP Notebook Technician
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IdeaPad U430 unmountable Boot Volume

My Laptop is not working.
When I turn it on, after Lenovo logo I see a msg "Your PC ran in to a problem and need to restart...... search online for this error Unmountable Boot Volume."
Then automatically PC go to Auto Repair but after few seconds that msg dissapears.
I selected recovery option but after LEnovo logo nothing come on the screen.
I boot up with usb recovery media then also I can not see anything on the screen after logo.
What I can do
Thanks

Hi Nalinpr,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with unmountable boot volume in your Lenovo U430 laptop.
If your BIOS settings are configured to force the faster UDMA modes, this error may occur. In this situation, restart your computer and enter the BIOS and load the "fail-safe" default settings and reboot.
If neither of these issues are the cause for the Unmountable Boot Volume, then the issue most likely is caused by a damaged BOOT.INI file in the root directory of the boot drive or file system corruption.
Follow the steps below to correct these file system issues:
1) Start your computer with your windows 7 or any operating system which you have installed in the system CD-ROM,
2) When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to Repair the installation using the Recovery Console
3) If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation you want to access
4) Type the administrator password when you are prompted, if no administrator password is set then just press Enter
5) At the command prompt, type CHKDSK /R and then press Enter
6) Once CHKDSK has finished checking and repairing the hard drive, type EXIT and press Enter to restart your computer
If this procedure does not work, repeat it and use the fixboot command in step 5 instead of the chkdsk /r command. FIXBOOT writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition. The fixboot command is only available when you are using the Recovery Console.
As you also mentioned that the system hangs at Lenovo logo please try to remove the hard drive if possible and try to boot to BIOs and check, also try to run the LSC diagnostics.
Hope this helps. Do post back if issue persists!
Best regards,
Ashwin.S
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10.6.2 won't install to another volume other than the boot volume

Report a possible bug to Apple.
as is often recommended for updates, I install from another volume other than the one I want to update, and never update the volume I am booted from. The 10.6.2 update (both combo and update only) won't update any other volume other than the one booted from. Previous updates of OS X have always been able to do this. When I try to change installation location to another volume (which contain 10.6.1) it posts an error saying "This update requires 10.6.2 to be installed", which is wrong it two ways. First, how can an upgrade require itself to be installed before it will actually install. Second, there is no reason it shouldn't have been able to update the 10.6.1 volume. I had two 10.6.1 volumes, when booting from either one, it wouldn't update the other. The update will install if it's run on the volume I boot from, but that defeats the purpose of trying to eliminate update issues by installing from another volume.

-update-
In order to to update remotely, there seems to be a number of new and interesting restrictions
imposed. I came to these basic conclusions by experimentation:
1. I was unable to install a 10.6.2 update to a remote 10.6.0/10.6.1 volume, while booted from
a 10.6.0/10.6.1 volume. In other words I had to be booted from a 10.6.2 volume to be able to
remotely install (or reinstall) a 10.6.2 update to a remote 10.6.0/1/2 volume.
2. If the volume I was installing to was another internal volume, then I usually (but not
always) had to set the volume I was trying to install to, as the default startup volume in system
preferences before the installer would accept it as a valid volume to update.
3. If the volume I was installing to was a firewire or USB drive, then the #2 restriction did not apply,
but the the #1 restriction still applied (I still had to be booted from a 10.6.2 volume to install
a 10.6.2 update).
4. If, after following the above rules, you are still having trouble, simply rebooting and trying
again will usually work.
So in conclusion:
Remotely updating an external firewire or USB drive was relatively simple and easy, just boot
from an internal 10.6.2 installation and do it.
Remotely updating another internal drive though, can be quite annoying.
Apple, it seems, is heavily promoting the automatic update method.
Lately, it seems, it is getting more and more difficult in many cases, to get a major
OS update to "take" properly. I have been heavily using the "bare bones admin account"
method (outlined in my previous post) for the last several months with good success.
I agree with you that the remote method should be the best, but Apple's install packages
have become increasingly difficult to install using that method, even in 10.5.x.
I will say this though, the updates I installed today using the remote method
are working just fine, even though I had to wrestle with them to get them installed.
Kj ♘

 Ps installation on two different boot volumes of same machine?  Ps 11.0.2 Mac PPC  and then...

Hello, I'm new to this forum.
My goal here is to have two different Photoshop 11.0.2 installations on two different boot volumes of one and the same Power Mac (PPC) G5 Quad, one being a Tiger 10.4.11 system and the other one a Leopard 10.5.8 system, for the purpose of installing two different modalities of the same Epson Photo Stylus 2200 printer, one with the printer set to use the photo black ink cartridge for luster and glossy papers, and the other one using the matte blank ink.
This is because I prefer to simply change the startup disk when switching inks rather than having to delete and re-add the necessary printers. (This particular printer does not support ink cartridge switching under any version of Mac OS X.)
Photoshop is currently only used on this one machine. Obviously this intended scheme fits well within the EULA conditions.
My three questions are:
(a) whether there is any technical issue I have failed to consider,
(b) whether each copy of Photoshop on the same machine will have to be activated separately (in other words, is the activation tied to the CPU or to the boot volume drive?), and
(c) if the answer to the latter question is yes, whether this will count as one or two activations for purposes of later installing a single instance of the Photoshop 13.x ("CS6") upgrade on an Intel- MacBook, since obviously C6 will not run on my PPC Mac. Again in sum, will I be able to continue to run Photoshop 11.0.2 on two different volumes of the same PPC machine and the Photoshop 13.x upgrade on the laptop?
As further explanation, I would use Photoshop 13.x on the Mac-Intel laptop only in order to run ACR 7.x, but would keep my PPC G5 Quad as my photo editing and printing machine running Photoshop 11.0.2, since an upgrade of my desktop machine to a comparably powerful Mac Pro is simply not an option for both financial and technical reasons (the Classic environment is essential).
Any and all input and guidance will be appreciated.
Message was edited by: station_one

Thank you for the lightning-fast response—and on a Sunday morning too!
MichaelKazlow wrote:
…Is it technically a violation, that is something I'd leave Adobe to answer.
From my previous visits to other forums as a lurker, I was under the firm impression you were in fact an Adobe employee, Mr. Kazlow. I hope that is still the case and you are only referencing your participation in these user-to-user forums as a volunteer, not as an official representative of the corporation.
Much obliged.

My presario b1900 only boots normally when a screen lid closed

Hi im a compaq presario b1900 user and suddenly started to have a booting problem since i mistakenly closed the laptop lid in full while booting and opened it up right after.
Then, my laptop only boots perfectly when the lid is almost closed under rougly 30 degrees - whenever i switch on my laptop with the screen lid open, it shuts down after 2 secs and automatically reboots, but then shuts down again ,and on and on.
But after once it goes into window, it works perfectly with the lid open and works well as log-on and off at standby mode.
It only shows a problem when booting after powered on.
is it because my HDD got damaged from a sudden screen lid close??
Or should i change HDD or is it a window issue??

Thank you so much for replying; unfortunately, my screen had already gone gray by the time I read your reply and I had to take in to the Genius Bar. My laptop's up and running, but the main problem is still unknown and I'll have to buy a new one soon. Thanks again!

How can I view the boot volume permissions?

How can I view the boot volume permissions in the Terminal and/or Single User Mode?
I have tried: 'ls -l /Volumes' but this appears to only work for the non-boot volumes. I can test this by 'sudo chmod 777 /' followed by 'ls -l /Volumes' but the change is not reflected by the new list.

I prefer to have my bootable volumes as follows:
drwxrwxr-x
I see no point in allowing others to write to / and sticky here often gets in my way. Can you see anything wrong with this?
I couldn't say, as I let Mac OS X do what it wants with the / root directory. I don't know how sticky can hurt, as you need to have elavated privs to do anything in root anyway.
But if it is working for you, have fun. Just make a note to yourself somewhere that you have made this change, so that if something stops working, you can take this change into consideration. And if this change does not cause problems, but does something useful for you, you can use the note to remind yourself that you need to re-make the change when installing a new system. So take notes on your changes. It will make your life easier in the future.

New Boot volume; same Time Machine

Couldn't immediately see a KB article on how to associate my existing Time Machine with a newly built boot volume.
Is it just a question of 'business as usual'… IOW when I'm running 10.6.6 from my new Macintosh HD disk, will Time Machine just pick up where it left off?
Or are there prefs etc, for example, to copy over from old system to new?
TIA!

Mark Sealey wrote:
Pondini,
New drive on the same Mac. But, as you point out, thanks, new UUID.
On the one hand I really don't need a new full backup.
Unfortunately, you don't have a choice.
*Since I'll have about 250GB, how much TM space will that take up?*
A bit less than the total amount used on the disk, as Time Machine automatically excludes some things like system work files, most caches and logs, trash, etc. Usually, that's only a few GBs.

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