I have a question about macOS Monterey 12.1 (latest version) System Preferences - Select Startup Disk.

[Pinarek]

I have a question about macOS Monterey 12.1 (latest version) System Preferences - Select Startup Disk.

I installed Win10 as Bootcamp and would like to select Bootcamp in the startup volume from Monterey,
but it doesn't exist.

I still have Big Sur 11.6.3 installed on another partition if I use that and
go to system settings and choose boot disk, there i see the bootcamp partition and can set it like that
which then boots Bootcamp (Win10) the next time you restart.

Is there an option to also add the bootcamp partition in Monterey as a startup disk?

Is there the good old tool "BootChamp" last version is 1.7 from 2015 which is not under Monterey
works, something similar for Monterey ?

Thanks for info or tips.

 

[chrfr]

I have a question about macOS Monterey 12.1 (latest version) System Preferences - Select Startup Disk.

I installed Win10 as Bootcamp and would like to select Bootcamp in the startup volume from Monterey,
but it doesn't exist.

Do you have a 3rd party NTFS driver installed? If so, you can probably use that to allow setting the Boot Camp drive as startup.

 

[hwojtek]

Perhaps Boot Runner is just for you.

 

[cleanton]

Go to Bootcamp settings, you should be able to select startup disk between macos x and windows.

Or reboot your computer and push "option" button on the keyboard till the bootcamp screen opens, then select the os you want to startup and check the small box on the screen to make it new default startup setting.

This is how I was doing.

 

[Pinarek]

Thank you EVERYONE for the tips here.

I have installed Boot Runner version 3.5 and it works so far, but not all macOS partitions (I have 3 macOS) can be booted.

The Win10 in Bootcamp goes to boot. Even if you have activated the automatic login because it was written there that the boot option ONLY appears when you log off if automatic login is disabled, that's not the case.

But when I restart the iMac, there is no boot selection from the boot runner, only if I hold down the options key do I see the boot menu from macOS.

I then bought Paragon's NTFS for Mac for 19.99 euros, it's cheaper than Boot Runner at around 36 euros and that works now too.

It didn't work before because an NTFS kext driver "iboysoft" was installed, don't know where it came from, iboysoft "NTFS" had never been installed. After completely removing the iboysoft kext and reinstalling Paragon NTFS for Mac, writing is now possible on NTFS partitions and booting Win10 in BootCamp now works perfectly.