There are very specific instances in which you wouldn't have a recovery
partition and, if you continue to have trouble, post which OS you are
installing (Yosemite, Mavericks, etc) and we can try to help you further.
Meanwhile I can give you a few possibilities.
1. You have to have Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks or yosemite (or the El
Capitan beta) installed to have a recovery partition.
2. It is indeed command-r not just r that must be held down.
3. After holding down for several seconds and releasing, wait a few more
seconds and then do command-f5. Voiceover does not come up automatically.
4. I don't have documentation to prove this but i suspect that all keyboards
are not created equal in this respect. I have a DAS mechanical keyboard which
is my favorite and I use it constantly. But I have discovered that I have a
great deal of trouble getting into recovery mode when using it; as soon as I
switched to the Apple Wireless keyboard when attempting to boot into recovery
mode, my success became pretty much 100%.
4. Make sure you hold down command-r immediately at boot and keep them held
down without letting up slightly. Actually, I usually start holding down as my
system is going down if I am rebooting sometimes or I get my fingers positioned
on command and r before I start the computer if I am starting with the computer
shut down.
Hth.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Sep 7, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Ignasi Cambra <ic4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Also keep in mind that you donât necessarily have a recovery partition,
meaning that depending on how you installed your operating system and on
which version you are running it might not have created one.
On Sep 7, 2015, at 9:55 PM, Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think it is command-r.
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On Sep 7, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Gary Lee <kb9zuv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
been trying to boot my macbook pro from the recovery partition. holding
down the r key from the startup sound for up to 30 seconds.
what am I missing?
Gary Lee
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