Recovery Partition

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Recovery Partition

I have a MacBook Pro 9,2. It came with 10.8. I tried to downgrade it to 10.7.5 for uniformity with other corporate settings by using a recent 10.7.5 CCC image I created. Everything worked fine except the Recovery partition.

I would click command + R and it would show the Apple logo with no spinning wheel.

I then manually deleted and then recreated the Recovery partition using the latest 10.7.5 installer app and some scripts I found on the web.

The Recovery Partition was created correctly yet when I would hold command + R it would boot to Internet Recovery.

When I held option key during boot and selected the Recovery Partition, it booted fine. I verified there are only 2 partitions - the primary boot and the recovery partition.

I repartitioned and reformatted the drive and reinstalled 10.8.2 from a USB Installer drive I created and the system still boots to Internet Recovery.

Right now I'm reinstalling from the Internet Recovery Partition that the MBP booted to, and I'll see how that goes, yet while I'm waiting does anyone have any ideas as to why there are issues and how best to remedy?

Thanks for any assistance.

Posted on Jan 3, 2013 2:18 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 3, 2013 2:31 PM in response to Layne_Staley

I'm not sure, but you may want to delete that cobbled version of the Lion Recovery Partition that you put together, and instead start by using the "Lion Recovery Disk Assistant". There is a useful article on it here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1161664/hands_on_with_lion_recovery_disk_assista nt.html

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Jan 4, 2013 5:50 AM in response to Radiation Mac

Thanks.

As I mentioned I reinstalled from the 10.8.2 Internet Recovery with 10.8.2 installed (which the MBP shipped with) and now it all seems to work. I probably could have fixed the issues using the 10.7.5 Internet Recovery Partition yet I'm out of time, so I'm going to stick with 10.8.2.

Thanks.

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