Cmd-R starts internet recovery mode, even though I have a recovery partition

[malone]

Hi,

I was doing a clean install of my MBA 2011, and found that Cmd-R boots into internet recovery mode instead of the recovery partition, even though I have a recovery partition.

I am certain I have a recovery partition because "diskutil list" shows it, and the guest account appropriately reboots into the special Safari-only mode (which is found on the recovery partition).

Here was my process that led to this problem:
1. Clean install of Lion on MBA 2011 (using SD card with appropriate Lion image)
2. Updated to 10.7.3.
3. Enable FileVault 2 and Find My Mac.

Afterward, on boots, I see both my account and the Guest account (which reboots the system into the Safari-only mode). On Cmd-R, it boots into internet recovery mode instead of the recovery partition. Pressing "Alt/Option" on boot shows my OS volume, but not the Recovery HD.

Anyone have any idea why it does this, and how to resolve it?

Many thanks!

 

[quadrinary]

Bump! I've had the same thing happen.

What I noticed was that if I entered any network information (after holding down the Option key), it would try to do the Internet Restore the next time i did a Cmd-R. Highly annoying to say the least.

My solution was to reinstall Lion using the app from the app store (fortunately I had saved a copy before running it the first time I upgraded) and it recreates the Recovery HD and stuff.

My bigger issue is that I have a VERY slow internet connection in the country I currently live in, and after reinstalling 10.7.3 it still needs to do some software updates, which takes an agonizingly long time. I restored from a Time Machine backup but that takes forever too.

I'd like to know if there's a way to use the installer to just recreate the Recovery HD rather than go through the entire painful process again.

 

[blatopilot]

I realized this is happening to me too. I'm certain that wasn't always the case. Strange.

I can see the recovery disk with holding option before startup.

 

[heisenberg123]

the recovery partition does not include the installer just the tools to allow you to to download lion aka internet recovery