Guest Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Hi all, As some of you already figured out, since several revisions of OS X, there is now a recovery partition available to re-install OS X. Honestly spoken, before today, I did not take much care about it, since I always had a handy USB stick "in case of emergency". ... however, with the upcoming Yosemite installer, this Recovery HD will automatically be created, even if you manually partition your HDD beforehand. Therefore, I tought, why not trying to see if we can use it. -> Booting it was pretty easy, however when I select "Re-install OS X" I always get the message "This is not a supported method of installing the operating system", and this also with my regular 10.9.5 installation. I am pretty sure that this will trigger the download of the InstallESD (and my net access is working, in case you ask), but I am pretty sure I am missing something here. Has anyone of you managed to have this stuff work? Do you need some special magic in the DSDT and/or NVRAM to make it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 With a MP6,1 system definition mine will not boot the Recovery HD same error as you with iMac14,2 boots perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Booting is not a problem... I can access the dialog with the "OS X Utilities". However, when I select "Reinstall OS X", I see the installer dialog showing up, but when an alert sheet containing this message. ...or have I missed your post ? PS: My system definition is a MP5,1 as this is what approches the most from my hardware (6 core i7 on x58 chipset) I just tried with an iMac14,2 system identifier (see attached smbios.plist), and I have the same effect. SMBios.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Booting is not a problem... I can access the dialog with the "OS X Utilities". However, when I select "Reinstall OS X", I see the installer dialog showing up, but when an alert sheet containing this message. ...or have I missed your post ? PS: My system definition is a MP5,1 as this is what approches the most from my hardware (6 core i7 on x58 chipset) I just tried with an iMac14,2 system identifier (see attached smbios.plist), and I have the same effect. No clue all I know is what it does on mine that is what I get with changed definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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