help getting into the recovery console

[ghrui]

hey

i just installed a second hard drive to my mac mini (799$ version)
i want to get into the recovery console to install lion on the SSD drive i installed instead of the regular hard drive the mac mini boots from now but i can't.

trying cmd+r when i restart or just turn on the mini but it always just boot to lion and not going into the recovery console.

any ideas why? what am i doing wrong ?

thanks in advance for the help

 

[Detrius]

It's not a recovery console. That's a Windows term, and on Windows, it really is a console.

Hold down the option key when you boot. It'll show you the bootable volumes that it sees, and "Recovery" should be one of them.

 

[shortcut3d]

I've had issues with BT Keyboards not coming on line fast enough. However, adding a USB Lion Recovery drive would allow me to hold option to see bootable devices. It seems that searching the external device for a boot option slowed thing down enough for the BT Keyboard to send the "Option" key press. FWIW, A fast external SSD on FW800 did not help. In my case, I replaced both drives with new drives that were apparently formatted with NTFS from the factory. Therefore, the error I was receiving was "No bootable devices found".