Hi,
I just booted Sierra into recovery mode and the terminal is missing from the menu.
The main install window has the usual Restore, Reinstall, Help and Disk utility. But in the top menu, there is nothing but "language chooser". Terminal is gone.
(Hardware is a 2011 15" MBP)
Help!
MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12)
The only work-around that I've found is to create a bootable install of Sierra http://www.macworld.com/article/3092900/macs/how-to-create-a-bootable-macos-sier ra-installer-drive.html
Then boot to the USB drive and use terminal from the menu there. It's a long-winded work-around, but I have verified that it does work. I was able to get into the recovery terminal this way.
This bug appears to only be affecting 15" 2011 MacBook Pro devices.
No, partitions are good. This is a reboot after a fresh install, without any Filevault. And a simple reboot back into OSX still works.
Thanks for posting! I'm running Sierra public beta 4 (10.12.3 maybe?) and there is no terminal option in recovery. Internet recovery takes SDL so I will try the boot drive solution here and boot into its recovery partition for terminal
Hello buddy,
I'm having the dame problem. Once I changed my battery, my MacBook Pro showed low performance due to kernel_task. I run the recovery mode but I have no terminal on Mac OS Sierra. Would you mind to give me more details about how to run the recovery mode from a bootable usb?
Best regards
Sounds like you booted into the Internet Recovery Mode (command+OPTION+r). Wait a minute or two to see if the Utility option appears in the menu bar. Also, you could boot into the Recovery mode partition on your hard drive using command+r while rebooting and it should be there.
Did you wait a minute or so for the options to fully load from the internet? You can also use command+r to restart into the local drives recovery mode partition. Internet Recovery Mode is command+option+r
MacBook Air 11" early 2015. Sierra 10.12.3. First bootup, held command r for the first three seconds and the menubar only showed the Apple menu and Language Chooser. Second bootup, held command r for the entire bootup, menubar appears normal with Utilities et al. Third bootup holding command r for three seconds worked same as second bootup. Never saw this in ElCap.
I find if I continue holding down Command-R, or hold down Command-R toward the end of the boot sequence it puts me into the Language Chooser Screen, where I can choose the Language and then go on to the Utility Menu. If I do not hold down Command-R, it seems to boot up to the Recovery Screen, but the only thing in the menubar is Language Chooser.
I hope this finally solves this problem!
I discovered that if you hold down option and click in the macOS Recovery window, the menu bar and, specifically, the Utilities menu appears giving you access to Terminal. I found this purely by trial and error.
Can also create and use an internal partition for the bootable drive
I ran into the same issue. The Utilities menu is not disk utility. It is in the main screen that appears after booting in recovery mode. Most of the guides I found online were incorrect.
I am using a MacBook Pro Mid2012 and it is missing for me too... is it missing from all older devices?
I've found that if you boot into Internet Recovery Mode everything is there. Command (⌘) – Option (⌥) – R
I too have the dreaded recovery mode bug.
How to access terminal in Sierra's recovery mode?
