If you are one among those one million users who successfully downloaded and installed Yosemite public beta which offered by the Apple one week ago which was available free to download. But what if you are a regular Mac user and you have to switch between Yosemite beta and OS X Mavericks without any trouble. Fortunately we find an easy way to switch between Yosemite Beta and Mavericks by using simple code script, you can find here.
As we know that Apple already seeded four betas of OS X Yosemite but you got the public beta, and if you find an easy way to boot into another Operating system will be definitely a big ease for you rather hanging around for some other options.
See Also:
- Install OS X Yosemite Public Beta For Free [How To]
- OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 4th Beta Seeded To Developers [Build 13E25]
- OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Beta Seeded To Developers [Build 13F7]
Easy Way To Switch Between Yosemite Beta And Mavericks
Here are few easy steps you can follow:
- Launch the Scrpit Editor by navigating “Application -> Utilities ->Script Editor” and click on new document
- Just paste following script in this new Apple Script document:
set deviceID to (do shell script “diskutil list | awk ‘/Yosemite/ {print $NF}'”) do shell script “bless -device /dev/” & deviceID & ¬ ” -setBoot -nextonly” with administrator privileges tell application “Finder” to restart
- Change “Yosemite” with the partition name where OS X is installed for booting into OS X Mavericks automatically. For instance, your OS X Mavericks is installed on partition called “Macintosh HD,” in order to boot into OS X Mavericks, the very first line of code would be:
set deviceID to (do shell script “diskutil list | awk ‘/Macintosh HD/ {print $NF}'”)
Here’s the script window should seem like:
NOTE: The same code on BootCamp to boot into Windows is somewhat different, as you have to add the word “-legacy” before ” -setBoot.” Just as before, make sure you have change directory location from the “BOOTCAMP”, in case your partition using a different name.
set deviceID to (do shell script “diskutil list | awk ‘/BOOTCAMP/ {print $NF}'”) do shell script “bless -device /dev/” & deviceID & ¬ ” -legacy -setBoot -nextonly” with administrator privileges tell application “Finder” to restart
We suggest making scripts to switch between other OS by placing that code in each system partition, in order to make use of this method properly. We are highly exited by finding such easy script and what to you think.
