Missing Yosemite Recovery Partition

After doing a standard, App Store upgrade of Yosemite it seems that the recovery partition is still Mavericks-specific. Whether I hold Cmd+R or Option and select the recovery partition it takes me to the Mavericks recovery. If I choose Reinstall OS X it kicks off the Mavericks (re)install screens.

Shouldn't there be a Yosemite recovery partition that replaced this? Is there any way to manually create the partition? Is this just how it's supposed to be with a Mavericks recovery partition after a Yosemite upgrade?

I had the same issue since the beta and the official release did not solve this issue. In the terminal I had the following output:

diskutil list

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            210.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                40.1 GB    disk0s4

a recovery partition was available (but not working)

The following did fix my issue:

• downloaded the yosemite installer (again)
• created a bootable installation (8GB USB) drive with yosemite (USB drive volume name is Untitled).

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction

• Removing the not working recovery partition

diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ ErasedDisk /dev/disk0s3

• merging the free space with the Macintosh HD partition

diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ MacHD disk0s2 disk0s3

• Install (like you upgrade) Yosemite over your existing (Yosemite) installation and complete the installation procedure (I used the installer from the fresh created USB).

After the installation was completed I rebooted the machine and I was able to use the find my Mac option again (error related to the recovery partition was gone).

This worked for me, a small (typing) error might result in loosing your installation + data. Please be sure you have a good working backup before you start!

Used resource: removing-and-rebuilding-a-malfunctioning-recover-hd-partition/

Are you aware of this thread at Apple Support Communities? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601122

According to this, Yosemite changed the way the Recovery Partition works when you have Core Volumes. It no longer shows in the list of drives when you boot with the option key pressed. The way to do it is by pressing Command-R.

I don't have Fusion Drive and still all my Macs ended up with Core Volumes after Yosemite Install and without Recovery HD showing up. Even after erasing, merging and reinstalling I ended up with Core Volume and no Recovery HD in boot options.

Command-R works.

Perhaps with Yosemite, you always end up with Core Volume?

If so, Apple should do a better job in communicating the change.

When you use the recovery option to reinstall OS X it is supposed to download and install the most recent version of OS X previously installed on this computer to perform the install. The install image isn't stored on your machine.

This is why Apple specify that you need an Internet connection to perform a recovery install.

In order to reinstall OS X, you need to be connected to the Internet over an Ethernet or Wi-Fi network.

I'm guessing the reason you are getting the Mavericks installer is because something went wrong with your previous install (given that you're trying to use Recovery then I'm guessing something went wrong). Essentially it is trying to install the "Last Known Good" (to steal a phrase from Windows) version of the OS.