I have the first MacBook Pro that went unibody. 15", Core 2 Duo. The disk should be set up the default way. I've never messed with it. What do you mean by a repair? I just did a permissions repair.
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I have the first MacBook Pro that went unibody. 15", Core 2 Duo. The disk should be set up the default way. I've never messed with it. What do you mean by a repair? I just did a permissions repair.
You might want to try disconnecting the current monitor and swapping to a different one. That seems to have helped one user. Also, there have been reports of the installs needing over 30 minutes. I'm not sure how long you have waited but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Issues remain. Re-downloading.
Well, my install did not go as planned. Rebooted and got the "mac ox utilities" menu. Repaired permissions, rebooted- and got booted back into snow leopard with my lion download gone. Re-downloading now and will try to reinstall. I made a genius bar reservation for tonight if this doesn't get resolved. My mac pro is xeon processor based- not sure what else could keeping the install from "taking." Sucks.
I am having the same issue. Can't get past the "mac os x utilities" screen after installing. I am thinking that something didn't install correctly.Any help??
Well, my install did not go as planned. Rebooted and got the "mac ox utilities" menu. Repaired permissions, rebooted- and got booted back into snow leopard with my lion download gone. Re-downloading now and will try to reinstall. I made a genius bar reservation for tonight if this doesn't get resolved. My mac pro is xeon processor based- not sure what else could keeping the install from "taking." Sucks.
Hang in there. I swapped my monitor connection out because of the same problem, after a hard reboot (!) and mine is installing ok now. But it is taking FOREVER. It may be that it's all going on under cover of darkness for you and it may come out the other side ok. I'd wait if I knew then what I know now.
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Thats a long time to wait with nothing on the screen, but on a system with limited resources I can see how it would take that long.
Yup. I think it's working now. It's still installing but I'm looking at the Installer Log and it got past the creation of the recovery volume.
Installed on my MBP. External monitor went to sleep and couldn't wake during install. Opening the lid on the MBP brought the display back.
Same issue here on my MBP. Repairing permissions now (it takes 17 minutes?!), will report back later.
Found out what my problem is!
In creating the Recovery HD, the installer was trying to write a new boot.ini onto my Windows partition, but I have mine formatted in NTFS, so it couldn't write anything to it. I guess that's what Apple meant by me "tampering" with my Boot Camp installation. So I guess I just have to reformat the partition in FAT32 and I should be good to go.
In creating the Recovery HD, the installer was trying to write a new boot.ini onto my Windows partition, but I have mine formatted in NTFS, so it couldn't write anything to it. I guess that's what Apple meant by me "tampering" with my Boot Camp installation. So I guess I just have to reformat the partition in FAT32 and I should be good to go.
Install is taking a very long time without the systems saying anything - have lion install going on imac i5 and mbp (recent), both have been at it for half an hour, and both are saying that time remaining is 20 minutes. The bar on both machines is moving, so I am hopeful....
Anyone have a clue as to why this is takingso long?
Ron
Anyone have a clue as to why this is takingso long?
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My install didn't even start...
My Lion installation failed even before it started, it gets stuck on the screen that says "Preparing to install. Your computer will restart automatically."
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189452
The installer didn't display any errors, it just did nothing. However the system console does show an error which seems to be the cause:
21/07/11 12:40:03 AM Install Mac OS X Lion[1669] Error loading /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage: dlopen(/Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage, 265): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcsfde.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage
Reason: image not found
Does anyone have any ideas what this means? Has anyone else had similar problems?
My Lion installation failed even before it started, it gets stuck on the screen that says "Preparing to install. Your computer will restart automatically."
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189452
The installer didn't display any errors, it just did nothing. However the system console does show an error which seems to be the cause:
21/07/11 12:40:03 AM Install Mac OS X Lion[1669] Error loading /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage: dlopen(/Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage, 265): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcsfde.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Install Mac OS X Lion.app/Contents/PlugIns/IACoreStorage.IABundle/Contents/MacOS/IACoreStorage
Reason: image not found
Does anyone have any ideas what this means? Has anyone else had similar problems?
Not having an install problem per se, but rather am looking for clarification. After you go to the apple up-to-date page and enter your details, do you still have to enter payment details?
EDIT: Nevermind.
EDIT: Nevermind.
Install went well.
MBP seems slow, but maybe it is doing a lot of spotlight indexing???
Fans are at 4300 RPM continuously.
Where has the "to do list" gone in Mail?
MBP seems slow, but maybe it is doing a lot of spotlight indexing???
Fans are at 4300 RPM continuously.
Where has the "to do list" gone in Mail?
After the download I started to install after it restarted it told me 36 mins to install so I let it sit there for a while. I came back and it had failed and told me it couldn't create a recovery pation and told me to go to a site(witch gave me no help) so click on the revert to pre osx after it restarted it just sits at the apple screen with the spinning thing and been there for an hour tried restarting again no help ran s mode and fdisk. No problems found restarted again still nothing. Dose anyone have anything for help
Formatting the hard drive?? (Downloading now)
I have been around Mac now for about a year and a half and I love both my Mac Computers (iMac and the MacBook Pro). I am downloading Lion now and I have been using Time Machine on my iMac (since the day I got it) and just did my first back up on my MacBook Pro (on the same HD_.
Once the download is completed, is Lion going to format my hard drive? If so, how do I bring it back from time machine? If I did not have all my school work (medical student), I would not care. But I have a lot of papers that I am working on and articles that I need. Will all the other programs that I did NOT buy from the App Store still be on my computer?
Just worried and make sure that I don't F this all up. Thanks for any help.
I have been around Mac now for about a year and a half and I love both my Mac Computers (iMac and the MacBook Pro). I am downloading Lion now and I have been using Time Machine on my iMac (since the day I got it) and just did my first back up on my MacBook Pro (on the same HD_.
Once the download is completed, is Lion going to format my hard drive? If so, how do I bring it back from time machine? If I did not have all my school work (medical student), I would not care. But I have a lot of papers that I am working on and articles that I need. Will all the other programs that I did NOT buy from the App Store still be on my computer?
Just worried and make sure that I don't F this all up. Thanks for any help.
Done - Imac took 1.15 to come back up, then needed to do a lot if Spotlight work. MBP somewhat longer (15 minutes).
All working ok so far.
Spotlight is re-indexing the drive so you'll have a lot of disk activity until that finishes. Certainly, that would explain slower performance and more fan speeds until it is done.
It will not reformat your drive so all your applications and documents should still be there. But, if you do an OS upgrade without having proper backups only God can help if something goes wrong.
As you say it's probably the spotlight indexing. My indexing took quite a while (1h+), and in the meantime the system was more or less useless.
Just hang in there