I've been testing El Capitan Beta 6 on a MacBook Air and I found one issue that I hope someone can confirm is a bug, or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
Data Recovery Usb
A step by step tutorial that shows how to create a bootable USB flash drive for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.Full guide: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/06/20/cre.
Starting with a USB bootable El Capitan Beta installer, initialize the SSD target drive, then install El Capitan, then go through the tedious/painful process of having 10+ GBs of updates pulled down (just a guess), until we are at El Capitan Beta 6.
I know of two ways: 1. Run the OS X 10.11 installer. This works even if you already have OS X 10.11 installed. It will automatically create the recovery partition without affecting your currently installed copy of OS X. Mar 07, 2016 After hours of trial and error, I was finally able to install OSX 10.11 'El Capitan' on my used iMac (mid 2009)! I tried to use the internet installer that came with it, but it would not work without signing into the original owner's AppleID (even though I specifically went into iTunes to 'De-Authorize this computer' before wiping the original.
Right off the bat I notice Recoverey HD is missing.
Running diskutil list shows Macintosh HD is there, but not Recovery HD.
Running diskutil cs list returns No CoreStorage logical volume groups found.
I booted off the USB bootable El Capitan Beta installer and created a DMG using both New image from Macintosh HD and New image from folder... this way I can at least restore Macintosh HD at a later date if necessary (fully updated to Beta 6).
I didn't bother to create an image from the SSD, since it is missing Recovery HD. Ideally I should be able to, to capture both Macintosh HD and Recovery HD.
El Capitan Recovery Usb Drive
I'll probably get slapped for asking, but I'd like to avoid going through this exercise a third time...
Is there a way to create a proper Recovery HD in El Capitan Beta 6 where it does not exist?
I'll be in purgatory if anyone responds.
TIA,
Don