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Create or update macOS Mojave Recovery Partition Without Reinstalling
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Set the macOS installer path as a variable | |
MACOS_INSTALLER="/Applications/$(ls /Applications | grep "Install macOS")" | |
MOUNT_POINT="$MACOS_INSTALLER/Contents/SharedSupport" | |
# Find the latest pkg at https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz | |
DOWNLOAD_URL="http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/24/46/061-41421-A_M34O0XGXUZ/vpexpha4aju1y04pz8ylxfm3mn1f543z94/macOSUpd10.14.6.RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg" | |
PACKAGE_NAME="macOSUpd10.14.6.RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg" | |
echo "macOS installer is \"$MACOS_INSTALLER\"" | |
# Set the target disk as a variable | |
TARGET=$(diskutil info "$(bless --info --getBoot)" | awk -F':' '/Volume Name/ { print $2 }' | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//') | |
echo "Target disk is \"$TARGET\"" | |
# Set the target disk filesystem | |
FS_TYPE=$(diskutil info "$TARGET" | awk '$1 == "Type" { print $NF }') | |
echo "Target filesystem is \"${FS_TYPE}\"" | |
# Download the APFS-compatible Recovery into /private/tmp | |
echo "Downloading $PACKAGE_NAME into /private/tmp" | |
curl "$DOWNLOAD_URL" --progress-bar -L -o "/private/tmp/$PACKAGE_NAME" | |
pkgutil --expand "/private/tmp/$PACKAGE_NAME" /private/tmp/recoveryupdate | |
if [[ "${FS_TYPE}" == "apfs" ]]; then | |
echo "Running ensureRecoveryBooter for APFS target volume: $TARGET" | |
/private/tmp/recoveryupdate/Scripts/Tools/dm ensureRecoveryBooter "$TARGET" -base "$MOUNT_POINT/BaseSystem.dmg" "$MOUNT_POINT/BaseSystem.chunklist" -diag "$MOUNT_POINT/AppleDiagnostics.dmg" "$MOUNT_POINT/AppleDiagnostics.chunklist" -diagmachineblacklist 0 -installbootfromtarget 0 -slurpappleboot 0 -delappleboot 0 -addkernelcoredump 0 | |
else | |
echo "Running ensureRecoveryPartition for Non-APFS target volume: $TARGET" | |
/private/tmp/recoveryupdate/Scripts/Tools/dm ensureRecoveryPartition "$TARGET" "$MOUNT_POINT/BaseSystem.dmg" "$MOUNT_POINT/BaseSystem.chunklist" "$MOUNT_POINT/AppleDiagnostics.dmg" "$MOUNT_POINT/AppleDiagnostics.chunklist" 0 0 0 | |
fi | |
echo "Finished creating Recovery HD" |
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Moved download url to a variable and listed where to get the new updates from. I can not get this script to work with 10.14.6 though because /private/tmp/recoveryupdate/Scripts/Tools/dm does not exist.