Lion Recovery

[ste1988]

Hi,

 

Just a quick question, because lion is diskless, how to i boot to its hidden recovery partition for a complete system rebuild.

 

I have a late 2011 macmini id like to restore.

 

Cheers

[X-13]

Hold down command+R during boot.

[soveryapt]

and if you're doing it through a proxy you might need Lion Recovery HD Through A Proxy - Mactasia

 

Edit:

You can use Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi if your cabled like I am ..

[SC92]

Or hold down alt on boot and then go from there!

[ste1988]

Cheers guys, how the hell does this work and why, contact the apple servers, is it completely redownloading lion again? as i thought there was a hidden recovery partition locally?

[soveryapt]

It checks for updates I think .. on a whole, it is mostly on your Mac already as you said .. but if there's been a major update I think it downloads some of those for you too ..

 

I think this is the case anyway .. I think it's also a way of checking that it's a legit copy too and that you're not trying to install it on an older machine by using a drive image from a newer machine with Lion on it ..

[HodgeHi]

On older machines I think it downloads some files required to restore and check to see if it's been purchased by the account. I just re-image the partition using Deploy Studio as its usually quicker. Edited April 26, 2012 by HodgeHi