cMP 2012
Even though I have three recovery partitions, I cannot get the Recovery OS to start. CMD-R, CMD-OPT-R both do nothing; the system just boots into whichever installation of MacOS has been selected as the startup drive in the most recent boot. If that startup drive is removed, the system boots to a screen that says MacOS Recovery, but then it switches to startup drive chooser. From there, Terminal can be started but when I try running a command for enabling System Integrity Prevention (SIP), an error is returned, saying that command can run only within the "Recovery OS."
I am not certain why SIP Is not enabled in the first place. I suspect SIP might be disabled as a result of using dosdude1's patch for installing the Catalina beta.
I have been pounding the halls of the interwebs, and am starting to run short of ideas for getting into the the Recovery OS.
Any thoughts or suggestions you might have would be much appreciated.
OUTPUT OF diskutil list
Not shown in this output is another HDD which was erased and followed by installing Catalina public beta. My hope was this would create a new Recovery partition, which it did, but I still could not boot into it.
Even though I have three recovery partitions, I cannot get the Recovery OS to start. CMD-R, CMD-OPT-R both do nothing; the system just boots into whichever installation of MacOS has been selected as the startup drive in the most recent boot. If that startup drive is removed, the system boots to a screen that says MacOS Recovery, but then it switches to startup drive chooser. From there, Terminal can be started but when I try running a command for enabling System Integrity Prevention (SIP), an error is returned, saying that command can run only within the "Recovery OS."
I am not certain why SIP Is not enabled in the first place. I suspect SIP might be disabled as a result of using dosdude1's patch for installing the Catalina beta.
I have been pounding the halls of the interwebs, and am starting to run short of ideas for getting into the the Recovery OS.
Any thoughts or suggestions you might have would be much appreciated.
OUTPUT OF diskutil list
Code:
/dev/disk0 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *512.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS rocketboss01 471.8 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Catalina Beta Installer 19.9 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Install macOS Mojave 19.7 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk3 255.9 GB disk1s2
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS first8tb 8.0 TB disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS Untitled 1.9 GB disk2s3
/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +255.9 GB disk3
Physical Store disk1s2
1: APFS Volume air_force 75.9 GB disk3s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 75.2 MB disk3s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 2.0 GB disk3s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 MB disk3s4
5: APFS Volume Catalina 10.4 GB disk3s5
6: APFS Volume Catalina - Data 41.3 GB disk3s6
7: APFS Volume Catalina-fxed - Data 28.5 GB disk3s7
8: APFS Volume Catalina-fxed 10.4 GB disk3s8
/dev/disk4 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk4
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1
2: Apple_HFS Untitled 13.7 GB disk4s2
3: Apple_HFS first4tb 3.9 TB disk4s3
4: Apple_HFS HighSierraOSBootable 45.1 GB disk4s4
5: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk4s5
6: Apple_APFS Container disk6 41.4 GB disk4s6Not shown in this output is another HDD which was erased and followed by installing Catalina public beta. My hope was this would create a new Recovery partition, which it did, but I still could not boot into it.
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