Yosemite recovery partition - gone?

seduc wrote:

You can see your recovery partition in Terminal.app

This is what is shown:

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 286.8 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS Data 250.0 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_HFS Storage 188.3 GB disk0s5

6: Apple_HFS eDrive 12.0 GB disk0s6

7: Apple_CoreStorage 248.9 GB disk0s7

8: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s8

Does this mean there are two Recovery HD's on my system? Of note I do have a "Mirror" of my boot drive for emergency situations; could the second one be from it? Also, what is "Apple_CoreStorate" at 248.9 GB (also two of them).

I'm in the process of turning off FileVault, read here that could be why the Recovery HDs are not showing on reboot w/Option down. Or showing in "Startup Disks" in System Preferences.

Started out here looking for info on how to prepare a MacBook Pro for sale, wiping the drives and installing the OS. Prior I tried my ways and it seemed it was far too complicated. All I want is the boot disk to have a fresh OS X install with all my data gone (am using the high security delete function in Disk Utility as a start). Have not been sure how to load the OS and once loaded and to the setup screens to gracefully exit without messing anything up. Will keep looking. These boards have been a very useful source of information for me over the years.

Tom

Been having this issue myself. Tried the terminal command as outlined and in terminal I can see the Recovery HD but with command R my mbp still tries to boot into internet recovery or on Option start it is not there Recovery HD is not there at all - on option start i do however now see EFI EFI which was not there originally

How can I get my mbp to boot into its own revovery HD

Regards

Bruce

Try reinstalling the Yosemite since maybe the recovery partition is corrupted

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18872

Have done that before I found your solution. Although not a reformat of the drive and clean install. Trying to avoid that if I can. Big job

Perfect!

Golf25Radioman wrote:

seduc wrote:

You can see your recovery partition in Terminal.app

This is what is shown:

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 286.8 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS Data 250.0 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_HFS Storage 188.3 GB disk0s5

6: Apple_HFS eDrive 12.0 GB disk0s6

7: Apple_CoreStorage 248.9 GB disk0s7

8: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s8

Does this mean there are two Recovery HD's on my system? Of note I do have a "Mirror" of my boot drive for emergency situations; could the second one be from it? Also, what is "Apple_CoreStorate" at 248.9 GB (also two of them).

I'm in the process of turning off FileVault, read here that could be why the Recovery HDs are not showing on reboot w/Option down. Or showing in "Startup Disks" in System Preferences.

Started out here looking for info on how to prepare a MacBook Pro for sale, wiping the drives and installing the OS. Prior I tried my ways and it seemed it was far too complicated. All I want is the boot disk to have a fresh OS X install with all my data gone (am using the high security delete function in Disk Utility as a start). Have not been sure how to load the OS and once loaded and to the setup screens to gracefully exit without messing anything up. Will keep looking. These boards have been a very useful source of information for me over the years.

Tom

Figured out that once the new install of the OS X is done and rebooted into the start of setup you can do a Command + Q and quit and then be prompted to Shutdown. Easy way to gracefully exit and not mess things up. Still not sure about the Recovery Disk issue though..

Tom

Hello. I found this thread when searching for a way to boot into recovery mode in Yosemite on a new Macbook Pro with retina display.

My reason for wanting to boot into recovery mode was because I wanted to set a firmware password.

Command + R wasn't working. Holding down the option key wasn't working, either. None of the keyboard shortcuts I read about online, that allegedly worked for booting into recovery mode, were working. I simply could not boot into recovery mode.

I followed the terminal commands suggested by henrik-kna on page one of this thread, but they only worked to a certain extent. The recovery partition was now visible as a second option when booting with the option key held down, but when I tried selecting said recovery partition, it just went back to the main HD.

I was beginning to get very frustrated, until I came across a way of setting the firmware password without having to boot to the recovery partition:

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-set-a-firmware-password-without-rebooting-in-os- x/

Instructions:

Enable the Debug menu in Disk Utility by opening the Terminal (in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder) and running the following command (copy and paste it):

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled

Open Disk Utility and choose "Show every partition" from the new Debug menu, and then mount the hidden Recovery HD partition by selecting it and clicking the Mount button in the toolbar.

Go back to the Terminal and run the following command to load the recovery disk image (copy and paste it):

open /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg

In the window that opens, go to the Applications/Utilities/ folder and locate the Firmware Password Utility.

Follow the instructions in the utility to set or reset the password.

This tutorial worked for me. I was able to mount the recovery partition via the new "debug" menu that appeared in Disk Utility.

I was so pleased to have finally found a way of sorting out this issue that I decided to post here to let other users know. I hope this post helps other Yosemite users who may also want to set a firmware password, but can't manage to boot in recovery mode.

Thanks man!

Thank you for the excellent advice!

Spot on. I have filevault enabled and did not see the recovery partition using the option key at boot, but successfully booted to recovery partition when holding command+R. I also confirmed the partition was there with the diskutil list command. 10.10.5

hello I have a problem with recovery hd walked my daughter in my Mac and wanted to reset it and I do not appear hd recovery can help me please ??

Start up holding the option key down. After starting up, you won't see your Recovery HD partition. Hold down Command-R, and click on the arrow for what appears to be the startup volume on which want to (or may want to) use the Recovery HD partition. After restart you'll be on your Recovery HD partition. Happy trails.