I've spent most of the day preparing to install El Capitan.
I did a complete TM backup and then a bootable clone (via CCC) to my external HD (also used for TM) which CCC informed me was successful.
When I tried to find the clone, no luck. I have no idea where it might be hiding and how I can access it to test whether or not it's bootable.
When I go to Startup Disk, all that shows up is my main HD and my backup HD with no apparent way to choose/find clone.
Any hints?
If, as I'm understanding it, your backup HD has got only your Time Machine backup and your clone...maybe some data, too, on it , selecting your backup HD should get you booted into your clone, because TM backups aren't bootable.
Clarifying, Startup Disk is recognizing your backup HD as bootable
only because it's got a bootable volume, i.e. your clone, on it.
