Missing Recovery HD in Lion

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I have not been able to get to my Recovery HD by the CMD-R at login.
I run "diskutil list" and see
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *640.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 639.3 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1
What did I do wrong installing LION?
 
I have not been able to get to my Recovery HD by the CMD-R at login.
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You don't press command-r at login, you press command-r while the system is booting up.

Restart your computer, then immediately hold the command and r keys down until you see the gray/white Apple logo screen. You should then be booting into the Lion Recovery Partition.
 
I should have said that I have tried at "restart", not "login". The fact that the partition does not show in a "diskutil list" is my big concern.
 
How did you install Lion?
The Lion thumb drive installer, for example, doesn't make that extra partition. The repair is found by booting to the thumb drive.
Is that possible in your case?
 
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *640.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 639.3 GB disk0s2
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Isn't that it, right there, in bold/italic?

EDIT: Nevermind, that's the physical disk description. Don't know why I thought that said 640MB.
 
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