Cannot activate Find My Mac - Recovery partition required.
Hi,
I have following problem. I installed SSD drive into my MacBook pro. And used it to create "Homebrew FusionDrive". I know that this DIY thing is not supported ,but it just works. Before creation of CoreStorage volume I did full backup including Recovery HD. Then I made cs group, volume and after it all resized disk to free space for recovery partition. Later I restored to it Recovery HD image using Disk Utility.
So all this thing is working - System Ok, Recovery boots. Only problem is that I cannot enable Find My Mac because "I don't have recovery partition.".
I would be very appreciated for any help.
My storage layout:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 119.7 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 498.0 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3
4: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 800.0 MB disk1s4
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS OSX *612.1 GB disk2
Just merged Apple_Boot partition (which was automaticaly created when i resized disk) and Recovery HD. And did restore of Recovery HD partition again. Now it works as expected.
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