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Resolved Sigh. (Lion Internet Recovery download failed)

wrldwzrd89

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5
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I've never had this issue before... I gave Lion Internet Recovery 2 hours to download Lion and re-install it. I checked on it at the start, and after 2 hours. The times to download were: 52 hours 2 minutes and 11 hours 49 minutes. Since it did not complete in a reasonable amount of time, I cancelled it and shut down the MBA... now it boots into Internet Recovery automatically, goes through its 15-minute boot routine, tries to install Lion, fails, automatically reboots, ad infinitum. Should I format the SSD in Disk Utility before trying again?
 
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wrldwzrd89 said:
I've never had this issue before... I gave Lion Internet Recovery 2 hours to download Lion and re-install it. I checked on it at the start, and after 2 hours. The times to download were: 52 hours 2 minutes and 11 hours 49 minutes. Since it did not complete in a reasonable amount of time, I cancelled it and shut down the MBA... now it boots into Internet Recovery automatically, goes through its 15-minute boot routine, tries to install Lion, fails, automatically reboots, ad infinitum. Should I format the SSD in Disk Utility before trying again?
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Do you see your OS X boot partition if you reboot while holding down the Option key? If it shows up, select it and you should be good to go.
 
Taz Mangus said:
Do you see your OS X boot partition if you reboot while holding down the Option key? If it shows up, select it and you should be good to go.
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Good idea! Why do I always forget about the boot manager? Perhaps it's because I don't use Boot Camp, and thus rarely have a need to invoke it.

EDIT: YAY! This worked. It's not rebooting constantly anymore. 😀
 
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