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Q: Why my Mountain Lion recovery partition cannot boot ?

Hi

 

I cannot boot from the recovery partition on Mountain Lion.

I am only offered Internet Recovery - which is slow.

 

I installed Mountain Lion from scratch on my Mid-2010 macbook pro.

I was running Lion, got the Mountain Lion app from the app store and created an USB stick

I have no bootcamp but enabled filevault after installation.

 

The recovery HD appears to be there and to be ok - see output below.

So why am I forced into Interent Recovery?

Can I 'recover' the Recovery partition ?

 

 

Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS MacOSX                 *498.9 GB   disk1

 

Using the DiskUtility debug option:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

 

I can even mount it and list its contents:

Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/

MacOSX/      Recovery HD/

Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/

total 0

drwxrwxr-x  11 root  wheel  442 31 Jul 23:00 .

drwxrwxrwt@  4 root  admin  136  2 Aug 13:19 ..

drwxrwxrwt@  3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 11:54 .TemporaryItems

d-wx-wx-wt   3 root  wheel  102  2 Aug 13:19 .Trashes

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 11:54 .fseventsd

-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    0 31 Jul 11:54 .metadata_never_index

drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  102 31 Jul 12:38 System

drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel  170 31 Jul 23:00 com.apple.boot.S

drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel  340 31 Jul 11:54 com.apple.recovery.boot

 

Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil info disk0s3

   Device Identifier:        disk0s3

   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s3

   Part of Whole:            disk0

   Device / Media Name:      Recovery HD

 

 

   Volume Name:              Recovery HD

   Escaped with Unicode:     Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD

 

 

   Mounted:                  Yes

   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Recovery HD

   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD

 

 

   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+

   Type (Bundle):            hfs

   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

   Journal:                  Journal size 8192 KB at offset 0x7000

   Owners:                   Enabled

 

 

   Partition Type:           Apple_Boot

   OS Can Be Installed:      Yes

   Media Type:               Generic

   Protocol:                 SATA

   SMART Status:             Verified

   Volume UUID:              2FB278E4-2FC8-3CCB-8F6A-4EF280037F15

 

 

   Total Size:               650.0 MB (650002432 Bytes) (exactly 1269536 512-Byte-Blocks)

   Volume Free Space:        125.0 MB (125001728 Bytes) (exactly 244144 512-Byte-Blocks)

   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

 

 

   Read-Only Media:          No

   Read-Only Volume:         No

   Ejectable:                No

 

 

   Whole:                    No

   Internal:                 Yes

   Solid State:              No

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 2, 2012 5:37 AM

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