Mac Pro 2013 wont boot from recovery

[iMactouch]

Hi!

I installed the Mac Pro 2013 from a High Sierra USB stick on a completely empty internal SSD.

If I boot with pressed ALT-key only my normal startpartition is viewable.

When I look with diskutil to the drive, I see this:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Eimer                   47.2 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.4 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4

I also can mount the recovery-Partition. Inside is a folder with an UUID with this inside:

$ ls -al
total 1040680
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel        352 24 Mär 15:00 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel         96 24 Mär 15:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel        160 24 Mär 15:00 .diagnostics
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       1948 24 Mär 14:58 BaseSystem.chunklist
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  480934734 24 Mär 14:58 BaseSystem.dmg
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       5042 18 Jan 06:09 PlatformSupport.plist
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel        480 19 Jan 07:41 SystemVersion.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     571960 24 Mär 15:00 boot.efi
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        397 24 Mär 15:00 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   25647926 11 Jan 05:34 immutablekernel
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   25647926 11 Jan 05:34 prelinkedkernel

I have a Mac mini 2012 where I did the same installation from an USB stick. If I boot it with pressed ALT-key I can choose the recovery partition. There I have the following in diskutil:

diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         749.9 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +749.9 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Nepomuk                 566.1 GB   disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.7 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.8 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk2s4

The recovery partition has these files:

ls -al
total 1063120
drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel        416  2 Apr 11:53 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel        128  5 Mär 04:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel        160  1 Apr 21:06 .diagnostics
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       1984 28 Mär 05:28 BaseSystem.chunklist
-rw-r--r--@  1 root  wheel  485202034 28 Mär 04:46 BaseSystem.dmg
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       5082 28 Mär 01:50 PlatformSupport.plist
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel        481 28 Mär 03:36 SystemVersion.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     576056  1 Apr 21:15 boot.efi
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       2738 28 Mär 04:43 boot.efi.j137ap.im4m
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        397  1 Apr 21:15 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   29250897 22 Mär 07:21 immutablekernel
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       2738 28 Mär 04:43 immutablekernel.j137ap.im4m
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel   29250897 22 Mär 07:21 prelinkedkernel

Has anyone an idea why the Mac Pro doesn't show me his recovery partition?

 

[h9826790]

Simple hold Command + R during bootto enter recovey partiton is way faster and easier.

Different firmware, different recovery partiton version etc may have different effect in boot manager.

 

[iMactouch]

If I am booting with Command+R the Mac starts the Internet Recovery, not the local one (the globe is shown).

But in the meantime I found the solution to the problem. I only have to reinstall the Combo 10.13.4 Update. Now he boots from the local Recovery partition when I press Command-R.