Can't get into Boot Options

[tymaster50]

My r key doesn't work so i have to use the alt/options key, but only the main partition shows up, no recovery HD. Is there a fix or am I stuck?

 

[MacsRgr8]

Booting with the <ALT> pressed should give you the option for the Recovery partition too.

Can you see the partition if you enable the debug menu in Disk utility?

In Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

 

[tymaster50]

Booting with the <ALT> pressed should give you the option for the Recovery partition too.

Can you see the partition if you enable the debug menu in Disk utility?

In Terminal.app:

I did that and it showed up but doesn't show on the actual list of partitions at startup

 

[tywebb13]

The yosemite installer may have created logical volume groups.

This is how to fix partitions (including the recovery partition) if this were the case.

If the yosemite installer creates logical volume groups, you can run this in terminal to get your partitions back to normal. This will also make a recovery partition visible when you boot up when holding the option key down (provided the yosemite installer installed one when you installed yosemite).

diskutil cs list

and then

diskutil coreStorage revert lvUUID

where lvUUID is the last lvUUID reported by the previous Terminal command.



You may have to restart for everything to get back to normal after you have run these commands in Terminal.

 

[tymaster50]

thanks man i'll see if it works, yosemite keeps making my computer crash so i'm going back to stock for now until another beta comes out.

Edit: says unable to find disk...

 

[tywebb13]

Remember that the lvUUID to enter into the second command is the last lvUUID reported by the first command.

 

[tymaster50]

Finally got it. I had to use disk1 uuid instead of the hard drive