Recovery partition missing on OS X El Capitan

Hello,

Just did a clean install of El Capitan on my rMBR (Early 2013) to find that the recovery partition is missing! Anyone else facing the same issue? This is how I made the bootable USB drive of El Capitan.

Terminal command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 8:51 PM

47 replies

Jul 13, 2016 1:36 PM in response to achillesfromredlands

same issue here... old mac mini doesn't boot and a folder is flashing with a question mark.

I tried all the startup key combinations and the only one that works is Startup manager (option key).

From there i can only connect to my wifi network, nothing else...

I tried what you said, cmd-R from the startup mode, but nothing happens :-(

Did you do something "special" to jump into Recovery mode from there ?

THX

Jul 21, 2016 12:12 PM in response to axionsan

Thank you for this information! I'm on this forum for a somewhat unrelated issue -- I'm trying to isolate the recovery partition off of an El Capitan installation to add it to a multiboot USB and your post confirmed for me that it's possible to go about it this way.

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Recovery partition missing on OS X El Capitan