Mountain lion will not install and sends me to support/no-recovery
I can't load Mountain Lion since it doesn't support recovery any way around this glitch
Does the article apply to your setup?
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I've read that support discussion but is there a simpler way of getting Mountain Lion to work. My past few operating systems have been purchased as Apps, I have no way of going all the way back to Snow Leopard. Please advise, or this is just a waste of $20
If the terms of the article apply to you, then your question has been answered.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464
i updated lion recovery and reinstalled mountain lion. worked for me.
I tried and failed for several hours to install Mountain Lion, and was repeatedly getting the "Recovery System" cannot be created error. I tried all the tricks: resizing the drive partition, booting from an external boot drive, all to no avail. After reading other users struggling with the same issue, I had determined it to be a boot camp drive error. However, I didn't want to have to erase and begin anew when I came upon a possible solution. I had long ago renamed my boot camp drive with a "." (".windows" for me) in order to avoid having the partition show up on my desktop. So, I boot into windows and renamed the c: drive without the "." ("windows"), and reboot into os x. The install then went off without a hitch. I hope this will be helpful for others struggling with this issue that may have renamed their boot camp drives in a similar manner.
Hi,
I had the same problem, unable to install Mountain Lion due to recovery problem. After a long investigation I found out that my Recovery HD partition was only 613.6MB and it should appearently be 650MB !
--- BEFORE ---
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 119.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 613.6 MB disk0s3
What I did to solve this was to delete the Recovery HD partition using the following steps:
* In terminal window write the following: defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
* Go to Disk Utility where you now should have debug menu. Select the option to show all paritions.
* Delete your Recovery HD partition.
* Make sure that you have at least 650MB free on your OSX drive. If not decrease the size of your OSX partition.
* Install Mountain Lion and it will then automatically create a new Recovery HD partition.
--- AFTER ---
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 118.9 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
I hope this can be helpful to someone.
Mountain lion will not install and sends me to support/no-recovery