How to Boot Into Lion's Recovery Mode on Parallels Desktop.

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by ChrisM2, Nov 3, 2011.

  1. ChrisM2

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    Does anyone knows if a user can boot into Lions recovery mode when having installed OS X Lion into a parallels partition ?

    Thanks in advance.
     
  2. Brazilian Joe

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    You have to check 'select boot device on startup' on your vm options. But you must have created the VM with the 1-click Lion VM creator, otherwise the recovery HD won't be hooked to the VM.

    With this option, the boot will ask for input, so you can select the boot device.
     
  3. David MC

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    yes but when you finally get INTO recovery mode, the parallels tools aren't installed, and can't be installed, so it's impossible to USE recovery mode.
     

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