Recovery Partition

[jeffrey_ngo]

Does anyone have a way of maintaining the recovery partition with Mountain Lion. It seems once I re-image a machine with composer it kills the recovery partition. We only need them for purposes of encryption. I am getting an error when trying to encrypt, and the recovery partition is there just will not boot.

Thanks

-Jeff

[rtrouton]

You could set up an installer package that installs the current Recovery HD partition at first boot. There's a couple of posts out there describing how to build a package that does this:

http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/creating-recovery-partitions/

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/creating-an-updated-recovery-hd/

[nethers]

Does this workflow work for 10.11? Need to get back a missing recovery partition on 10.11.

[dnwilson]

I would like to know the Updated solution for 10.11.3 ..

[bentoms]

Are you capturing the recovery.dmg when using composer to create the OS.dmg?

Better still, if you use AutoDMG to create the OS.dmg it will include the recovery partition & then you install that OS.dmg to clients with the recovery included.

[possmo]

I've been using AutoDMG and I'm seeing that it does not create the Recovery Partition. Could someone point me in the right direction for getting it to work?

[milesleacy]

Better yet, don't image.

New Mac? Enroll out of the box.

Repurposed Mac? Erase internal disk, install OS X, enroll.
Note: OS X Caching Sever caches Internet Recovery

[bentoms]

@possmo AutoDMG does create the recovery partition.

Used it for years & my Macs have the recovery partition.

What's your imaging process? What are you doing to check for the recovery partition? What does "diskutil -list" show?

[BOBW]

@bentoms

should be "diskutil list" no "-"

lol, been reading your posts for ages now and wasnt sure if I should even correct you, ....... but thought it might help the cause.

BTW been using AutoDMG for the past 12 months and works perfectly for us :)

[bentoms]

@c0up3 correct away!

[BOBW]

Could it be a matter of the Recovery Drive is not being blessed?

Im not 100% sure of the command for the recovery drive. Someone might want to check this
@possmo does the recovery drive show when you do a ls -la of Volumes?
Open Terminal
type "cd /Volumes"
type "ls -la"

What do you get back?

[mjsanders]

The Recovery HD should normally NOT show up in /Volumes.
This is what I get:

$ ls -la /Volumes/
total 24
drwxrwxrwt@  5 root     admin   170 Mar  7 09:26 .
drwxr-xr-x  34 root     wheel  1224 Mar  4 14:41 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     admin     1 Mar  4 16:44 MacHD -> /
drwxrwxrwx   0 root     wheel     0 Mar  7 09:27 MobileBackups

and this is normal
diskutil list is the output you need to investigate.
and if there is a correct Recovery HD, check the version of it (if there is a version mismatch FileVault will probably fail to be configured too)

[BOBW]

Yeah. What they said. I realised I had composer open when I ran to test.....