New Mac Mini (late 2012) with 1TB Fusion HD. When I startup while holding option key the recovery HD does not appear as an available HD only the main boot volume. In disk utilities many partitions appear even Boot Camp which I did not install.
Is this the way a Fusion drive operates? Shouldn't I see a recovery partition on option startup?
Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
I don't see the Boot Camp partition on your hard disk. Your computer uses Internet Recovery instead. Press Command and R keys when your Mac starts and it will start into Internet Recovery
I don't see the Boot Camp partition on your hard disk. Your computer uses Internet Recovery instead. Press Command and R keys when your Mac starts and it will start into Internet Recovery
My error re: Boot Camp
I can see "Boot OS X", but it has nothing to do with Apple Boot Camp
I have the same isue. But I would prefere a recovery partition on my local fusion drive. How can I change from internet recovery to a local recovery partition?
That isn't entirely correct. The 2012 Mac Mini is capable of Internet Recovery but the CMD+R involks the normal Recovery HD partition. CMD+Opt+R starts Internet Recovery. Internet Recovery would also start if the Recovery HD partition wasn't present when pressing CMD+R on boot.
I think it may have to do with CoreStorage volumes but the Recovery HD will not show when holding option at boot. The only way to start it is CMD+R.
jedib0p is correct regarding the Fusion drive.
So, for you, you should be able to press COMMAND+R when you restart your 2012 Mac Mini with Fusion drive to get to the Recovery HD instead of Internet Recovery. BUT, if for some reason the Recovery HD is hosed or not there, that key combination will go to Internet Recovery like jedib0p mentioned. The Alt/Option key will NEVER show the Recovery HD for a Fusion drive.
jedib0p
Thanks for your contribution.
Bill
Happy to help.
No Recovery HD on Mac Mini
