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Q: How to restore my recovery partition on Lion 10.7.5

Hi all,

 

last week i installed  the latest security update for Lion and ended up with a broken system.

I run into the dock magnification lag as well as some other problems.

I lost my printer (Lion told me that it was offline) and the web interface of my FritzBox was unreachable (but i still had an uplink).

So decided to boot into recovery mode to restore my system from my Time Machine backup.

I selected the wrong backup set and needed to repeat the whole procedure.

At the second try my Mac booted from the network - but the hidden recovery partition was gone.

 

Output from diskutil:

 

sh-3.2# diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk1

   1:       Microsoft Basic Data MYSD2GB                 2.0 GB     disk1s1

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2

   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Backup                  500.1 GB   disk2s2

   3:                  Apple_HFS Stuff                   499.6 GB   disk2s3

sh-3.2#

 

I figured out that the recovery worked as designed  - i could recover my system.

But would like to have my hidden recovery partition back.

I found this: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19145/how-can-i-create-or-recreate-a-li on-recovery-partition

But i'm a bit unsure if this is the right way because this are some operations that really one don't like do very much... :-(

 

And i also couldn't reinstall my printer (Canon pixma ip5200) as USB printer.

I attached it to my router via USB and installed a software RIP (PrintFab2) and with the driver that comes with it my printer works again.

But N.B.: before the recovery (and many updates) it worked via USB with the driver that came with Lion.

 

That you very much in advance for any hint.

 

Best regards, Peter

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Sep 22, 2014 12:22 PM

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    penigmaticwine penigmaticwine Sep 23, 2014 11:29 AM in response to penigmaticwine
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    Sep 23, 2014 11:29 AM in response to penigmaticwine

    Hi all,

     

    it worked as described in the link i provided:

     

    sh-3.2# diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

    /dev/disk1

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk1

       1:       Microsoft Basic Data MYSD2GB                 2.0 GB     disk1s1

    sh-3.2#

     

    My Recovery HD is back and boots.

     

    Thank you very much for help.

     

    Regards, Peter