How can I boot from Clone Drive?

I believe that I am having some problems with my boot drive, and I would like to boot up my system using the boot drive I created with Carbon Copy Cloner, which is on another internal HDD within my tower.  I would like to boot with that cloned copy, but have forgotten how to do it.  My boot drive is a SSD drive, and appears to be working well, but disk permissions showed many errors, most of which I was able to repair with repair disk permissions, but not all of them.  Any help and/or direction is greatly appreciated.

System Preferences > Startup Disk ...
... will show all Volumes it thinks it can boot from. Set to whichever one you want.
That presumes your Mac is booted up and System preferences is working.
If not, hold down the Option key at Startup.
You get a display of all bootable Volumes, and the Eject key is "live" once they are all drawn.

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