Hdiutil eject /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/ Hdiutil eject /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion\ Recovery\ HD\ Update tmp/RecoveryHDUpdate/RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg/Scripts/Tools/dmtest ensureRecoveryPartition / /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg 0 0 /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.chunklist Hdiutil attach -nobrowse ~/Downloads/InstallESD.dmgĮcho "Building Recovery Partition. #access BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist Pkgutil -expand /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion\ Recovery\ HD\ Update/RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg /tmp/RecoveryHDUpdate Hdiutil attach -nobrowse ~/Downloads/RecoveryHDUpdate.dmg Read -p "Ensure "RecoveryHDUpdate.dmg" and "InstallESD.dmg" are in your Downloads folder and press " This is the content of recovery.sh file from the source link (all credit to 'tywebb13' again): Reboot with holding down the option key to test your 10.xx.x recovery Wait a few minutes for it to finish and return back to a prompt. Open Terminal and type the following two commands: chmod +x ~/Downloads/recovery.sh
This file can also be created by copy-paste Right click on "Install Sierra.app" or whatever it's called in Finder,Ĭopy or move the InstallESD.dmg file into your ~/Downloads folder.ĭownload and decompress the file recovery.sh.zip from LINK /recovery.sh.zip and move recovery.sh into yourĭownloads folder. In Finder, go to Applications and look for the Sierra installation app. LION recovery update!) Make sure it is in your downloads folder.ĭownload the OS X Sierra or whatever latest version from AppStore. Keep everything in ~/Downloads folder.ĭetailed instruction quoted from the source with minor edits from myself: (the script file in Step 2 is also copy and pasted below this quote for completeness)ĭownload the Lion Recovery Update from. This instruction involves downloading Lion Recovery Update 1.0, and a shell script (you can create your own with the contents copy-pasted from below), and also an image of the latest OS X (in my case OS X Sierra 10.12.2) and copying a file from that downloaded image. Read the first post in this thread, written by 'tywebb13'. Long time ago, I searched for a solution and found this post which solved this problem. Every time I update the OS the recovery partition is left untouched, or at least it appears to be. Unfortunately, that started to be an issue with 10.13.2 Supplement and 10.13.3 - so I had to find a way to APFS before I could get to the latest patches.This applies to OS X Sierra also. I suspect the SSD I have installed was recognized as a hybrid drive when I did the original High Sierra upgrade, so it left it as HFS+ instead of migrating to APFS. Everything seems to be working ok and hopefully now it will move on normally. My machine now shows that it is on 10.13.3 and that the SSD is formatted as APFS. wait ~16 hours for the recovery to complete.I did this from my latest Time Capsule backup. during the recovery, I was prompted and asked if I'd like to recover my data, applications, settings, etc using migration assistant.exit disk utility and from the recovery menu install a clean version of the OS - 10.13.3 - onto my newly formatted APFS drive.In disk utility, I had to erase my internal SSD and format it with APFS.boot from the USB and enter disk utility from the recovery options menu.create a bootable USB that I could install High Sierra 10.13.3 from.We shall see if it takes future updates okay. So.I was ultimately able to get my machine to 10.13.3.