[X4U] can't boot from lion to one of my snow leopard drives

[Vince Lewis]

My guess is that with that many disks, you're trapped in a huge Spotlight indexing. You can stop it in the System Prefs by going to Spotlight and then Privacy. Deselect the disks you don't need indexed--generally all the other boot drives, and you should see some relief. Also, if you reboot, hold down the Option key after the startup sound and you'll get a list of drives--both bootable and "Recovery" to choose from.
ciao,
Vince

On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:

> 
> Hi all.
> 
> In addition to my hard drive that has Lion now on it, I have two usb drives and a firewire drive with snow leopard on them. All this was working fine until I installed Lion. Now, in my lion install, when I go to system preferences > startup disk, system preferences just goes busy and voiceover says that system preferences has no windows; I end up having to force quit system preferences. Trying to boot with the technique of holding the option key down at startup is pretty hit-and-miss since I'm blind and voiceover won't talk until the system boots up. Does anybody have an idea why this might be hapening. I can access other system preference items; only startup disk seems to be affected. All the other drives do show up in disk autility and I can definitely navigate to all of them in finder.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Cheryl
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