Startup Disk in macOS - Change what system i want to start-up in!

[shauge78]

I have my work macbook pro where i have 2 partitions (APFS volumes)

1) For work
2) Privat

And the company set it so that the bootmenu is password protected so i cant boot from there between the 2 installations.

I have managed from the System Preferences -> Startup Disk once to boot the privat installation, but now when wanting to go there and boot up the privat installation i get this error/problem:

1. I Click the lock to make changes, type in my admin pw
2. Select the privat installation and click the Unlock button
3. I get the enter password for the privat disk, type in the password.
4. I then click the privat disk, and then i get an error
5. The error is: Preferences error There was an error in startup disk preferences
6. When then going in to Startup Disk again then the privat disk is not there anymore!
7. After a restart i then again can see the privat disk in the Startup Disk menu
   
   

What to do?

 

[shauge78]

I have now tried to reinstall the privat installation and did not enable APFS encryption, and now i could go forth and back from the Startup Disk manager, but then i when logged in on the privat installation enabled APFS encryption and now it does not work... how do i solve this, can't i dual boot from Startup Disk and have APFS encryption enabled?

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"I have my work macbook pro where i have 2 partitions (APFS volumes)
1) For work
2) Privat"

It's not a very good idea to keep your "private" stuff on a "work computer".
Just sayin'...

Having said that, although I don't use encryption at all, I sense that this could be messing things up during the bootup process...