I have an old iMac, 2006, it had Tiger OS, it has been upgraded to Lion. If I use: Command "R" for restore does it go back to Tiger or stay with Lion ?
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Restoring iMac
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If the computer has Lion or later installed, when you restart and hold down Command + R it will boot into the Recovery Partition. Please read up on Apple says about the Recovery Partition in:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
It sounds like you are asking about Internet Recovery, where you boot to Apple's servers to install some version of OS X.
Your 2006 iMac won't support that. Oldest Macs that support that are some 2010 Mac models.
