I have a late-2013 Retina Macbook Pro running Sierra 10.12.5 with a myriad of issues that I've been trying to work out. Today's problem: First Aid says there are problems with the partition map that might prevent booting, and to fix them, I need to run First Aid from Recovery. Easy enough.
So I boot into Recovery and run First Aid and get the same message: run First Aid from Recovery, even though I'm already in Recovery. I get the same message in Internet Recovery and when running Disk Utility off an external macOS installer USB. How can I get First Aid to run in Recovery?
Best Answer
I think it means restart from Internet recovery. Because the disk containing the recovery partition you are running disk first aid from needs repair. So reboot while holding commandR. Give your ethernet or wifi password if needed.
This just happened to me.
edit to fix key sequence.