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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)
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.
If you click on language chooser, and then move across the menu bar, do the correct menus show up?
How about if you select an item from language chooser and select a language?
I only so that menu appear briefly, so I don't know what is in it. It should go away and be replaced by the normal menus.
Weird, it looks like sometimes it _does_ show the utilities and sometimes it doesn't. When there was no OS installed, it wasn't showing them, now it is installed, they show up.
And then after a reboot they're gone again. "Language chooser" doesn't do anything when I click it. I can change language with the flag on the RHS of the menu bar... Weirder and wierder. The Apple logo just lets me shutdown or restart. The Utilities are missing!
(Yes my display is slightly damaged with a blue line down the screen)
The only thing I can think of is to reinstall OS X. It may reinstall the recovery partition and fix that problem.
Except this is the second time I've installed it now. I've been playing with installing it with/without FileVault and deleting the partition.
It showed the Utilities menu after I'd installed, I rebooted back into normal macOS, rebooted again back to recovery mode and it's gone.
It might be something to do with reboot / stop&start. Maybe.
It might be something to do with reboot / stop&start. Maybe.
Or with FileVault. Maybe.
How about if you open Disk Utility, then Quit it.
I tried booting from the Recovery Partition, and I tried booting using Internet Recovery (command-R).
Terminal is STILL there, in both cases, in the Utilities menu, together with Firmware Password Utility and Network Utility.
How to access terminal in Sierra's recovery mode?
