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Summary:

Macbook Retinas that have had Mountain Lion installed via NetInstall will not boot into Recovery Partitions via the boot shortcut, command-r.  Instead, they boot into Internet Recovery.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a Netinstall image on Mac OS X Mountain Lion Server for a Mountain Lion Client.  Enable the option to create a Recovery Partition.

2. Boot a Retina Macbook Pro off the NetInstall Server and install Mountain Lion.

3. When finished installing, reboot the Retina Macbook and press command-r to boot into the recovery partition.


Expected Results:

Retina Macbook boots into Recovery Partition.


Actual Results:

Retina Macbook boots into Internet Recovery.


Regression:

This appears to only be a problem with Retina MacBooks.  The issue does not occur on Mac Pros with the same NetInstall image.


Notes:

* I can reliably boot into the Recovery Partition on the Retina Macbook by booting into the Startup Manager (option key on startup) and selecting the Recovery Partition.

* When Mac OS X Mountain Lion is installed via Internet Recovery the Retina Macbook's Recovery Partition is fixed.

* NetInstall appears to not create a copy of "/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.chunklist" on Recovery Partitions it creates.  While this does not affect Mac Pros, it does break the ability of Macbook Retinas to boot directly into their Recovery Partition.  If I copy this file to a Retina Macbook's Recovery Partition the problem is solved.