Just installed Lion on my 2008 iMac. 9 times out of 10, when I turn it on, it goes straight to the Recovery Assistant, and the startup disk doesn't appear in Disk Utility or when I try to recover from a backup - it's like it can't find it at all. But occasionally, the computer boots up normally (randomly, as far as I can tell, not due to anything I'm doing differently), and I can run a verify/repair in Disk Utility and it says everything is fine. When it starts, it appears to run perfectly normally.
It also hangs every time it comes out of sleep, requiring a hard reboot from which it can't restart most of the time. So I've disabled sleep, but this is obviously still a problem.
I had issues before with Quick Look Helper hogging all 4G memory and read it might be due to a VMWare Fusion .qlgenerator file, so I deleted that. Then I read that VMWare Fusion might cause startup problems (I had an older version that isn't compatible with Lion anyway), so I uninstalled it. Still no luck.
Any ideas? Thx!
It also hangs every time it comes out of sleep, requiring a hard reboot from which it can't restart most of the time. So I've disabled sleep, but this is obviously still a problem.
I had issues before with Quick Look Helper hogging all 4G memory and read it might be due to a VMWare Fusion .qlgenerator file, so I deleted that. Then I read that VMWare Fusion might cause startup problems (I had an older version that isn't compatible with Lion anyway), so I uninstalled it. Still no luck.
Any ideas? Thx!