I have a Late 2015 MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.4 running VMWare Fusion Pro 8.5.6.
I am attempting to Install OS X from recovery partition and restore a time machine backup.
Here are the different methods I have tried which fail.
Process Number One
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- File | New | Install OS X from the recovery partition. This gives you a small default drive with a partition which boots where you can then Recovery from Time machine.
- I made the disk larger in the Fusion settings and repartitioned / reformatted it to 520G.
- I recovered the time machine backup
The problem - when the restore completes it boots back to the recovery options/partition where you began.
Process Number Two
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- In addition to the small partition created by default, I added a send drive of 520G.
- I recovered the Time Machine backup successfully
Again the VM just boots back to the initial recovery partition where you begin.
