Disk with 2 partitioned: how to create the Recovery HD with Casper Imaging?

Bonjour

I found this, you could use his instruction to make a script

http://www.dmitry-dulepov.com/2011/09/how-to-create-mac-os-x-lion-recovery.html

Hope that helps

Salut

You can also pull off the BaseSytstem.dmg (Hidden on the Lion DMG)

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110717190509986

Then resize the Macintosh HD add a 1GB drive then image that across, you don't even have to netboot you could do this via a policy.

Once you have it created and everything is imaged, you would have to run this script from the jamf KB (https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=173)

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s3
/usr/sbin/asr adjust -target /dev/disk0s3 -settype Apple_Boot

Let me know if you want some help on this one, would be a good to know and have.

How were these macs imaged? Are you sure they do not have a recovery partition?

I ask as I image my macs from a 10.7 compiled OS then partition adding a users partition.

This means I have actually 3 partitions in the following order:

1) OS
2) Recovery
3) Users

which, works! For booting to recovery partition anyhow, I've not tried FileVault.

@Rob Thanks for the tip. I'm not sure how I blew away my Recovery HD partition, but I was able to restore it in 15 minutes using your procedure.

I'm wondering if the Recovery HD partition ever gets upgraded when the OS is upgraded? I would hope Apple covered that base. If not, I'm hoping we can automate upgrade via Casper Policy. This really looks good. Thanks!

Don

Yeah the recovery hd does get updated. There was a recovery HD update that came with 10.7.2.

I also think that apple can update it with an is update like 10.7.3 combo.

@donmontalvo mind sharing what you did? Sounds pretty cool. Might evn help a few folk.

@Ben: I actually have only 2 partitions on the drives:

#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            124.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Users-Volume            124.7 GB   disk0s3

I used Casper imaging to deploy a pre-compiled 10.7.3 Macintosh HD, so the Recovery HD partition was not built.

@Rob: Nice tricks, but how should I create the Recovery HD partition? Casper Imaging won't partition a drive with already more than 1 Partition I think.

I found this article/script which seems to partition the disk on the fly and add the recovery HD -- will give a try and report.
http://www.brunerd.com/blog/2012/03/21/update-create-lion-recoveryhd-partition-quickly-without-reinstalling/

Thanks,

Yann

Hi Don,

I'm wondering if the Recovery HD partition ever gets upgraded when the OS is upgraded? I would hope Apple covered that base. If not, I'm hoping we can automate upgrade via Casper Policy.

I think you would be able to update/re-image the recovery HD the Brunerd's way :-)

Thanks, Yann

Awesome! Share it...

Basically I build the updated "RecoveryHDUpdater_11D50.dmg" the way brunerd described here http://www.brunerd.com/blog/2012/03/21/update-create-lion-recoveryhd-partition-quickly-without-reinstalling/, deploy the DMG to a temp folder and run this script (based on the .command file located in RecoveryHDUpdater_11D50.dmg but without the great interactivity -- don't need it now):

#!/bin/bash
MYPATH="/Volumes/Recovery HD Updater 10.7.3 11D50"
DEST="/"
DMG="/private/tmp/Casper/RecoveryHDUpdater_11D50.dmg"

#mount the dmg
hdiutil attach "$DMG"

#create Recovery partition
sudo "$MYPATH"/bin/dmtest ensureRecoveryPartition "$DEST" "$MYPATH"/etc/BaseSystem.dmg 0 0 "$MYPATH"/etc/BaseSystem.chunklist

#wait before unmounting
sleep 5

#unmount the dmg
hdiutil detach "$MYPATH"

hdiutil before...:

Office-SA-Mac mini:tmp localadmin$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            249.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Users-Volume            249.7 GB   disk0s3

...and after:

Office-SA-Mac mini:tmp localadmin$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            249.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5
   4:                  Apple_HFS Users-Volume            249.7 GB   disk0s3

Note that you can run the script more than once, it will not create a new partition. The current Users don't have to be logged out, so I think it could be deploy the every 15.

Thank's

Yann

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing mate!