Lion Internet Recovery Comes to Current-Generation iMacs

[justgeig]

this is definitely a good thing to know for all of us with older macs

 

[luke.mac1]

Does this do anything to fix the freezing problem the 2011 iMac has with lion when loading flash videos/waking from sleep?

 

[coolspot18]

Ummm, aren't the hard drives firmware locked, therefore how do I install my own harddrive in a current generation iMac?!?!

 

[Snowcat001]

How about fixing the wi-fi on my late 2008 unibody mbp?
It can't even hold the connection for 1 second (thank you 10.6.8)

 

[g-boac]

Just updated my iMac, now, I hope they release it for my 2010 MacBook Pro, but I dont expect it.

Hi Qwaf - I have a 2010 MBP as well. I hope so as well - if the hardware can support Lion, certainly it can also support Internet Recovery. At least for recent iterations.

I had a question - I have a 2010 MBP, along with a 2011 iMac. Just curious how you use yours / what you use each for, and how you keep data between the two in sync.

cheers,
Mark

 

[sziehr]

borked my iMac for a good 30 minutes.
I had to do a second power reset.
I am the exception but as a reminder back up before you do any kinda of EFI update could have been a really sad day.

 

[daxomni]

I would like to see this on MBP's from 2009 and 2010 as well.

I'll bet you forgot to run Utility Disk Permissions before you ran the update. It's a good idea to do that before every update.

What? You mean "it just works" isn't always true? Heresy I say!

 

[kcamfork]

Ummm, aren't the hard drives firmware locked, therefore how do I install my own harddrive in a current generation iMac?!?!

+1

I don't see the point to this EFI update. I'm glad they offered it, but maybe they shouldn't lockout the hard drives with firmware in the first place. Just a thought.

 

[davegoody]

I have this same problem

After updating my 2011 15" MBP I now experience no Internet connection when waking from sleep.

I think it is a lion fault in general this. I have a MBP 15" (2009) an MBP 13" (2010) and both of them have the same problem whereby I get no WiFi for around 4 or 5 minutes after waking my Macs from sleep. Not the end of the world, as bugs go, but extremely annoying to say the least.

 

[aberrero]

There's a chance the firmware chip from 2010 days can't handle the instruction set or it has to do with older MacBook's not necessarily being entitled to Lion as it downloads a recovery environment without the need for an Apple ID.

Lion was demoed on a 2010 MBA.

 

[adder7712]

I think it is a lion fault in general this. I have a MBP 15" (2009) an MBP 13" (2010) and both of them have the same problem whereby I get no WiFi for around 4 or 5 minutes after waking my Macs from sleep. Not the end of the world, as bugs go, but extremely annoying to say the least.

Yeah, I'm on Ethernet have been noticing this too. It sucks when you have to pull of and re-insert the Ethernet cord off the wall.

 

[kcamfork]

Yeah, I'm on Ethernet have been noticing this too. It sucks when you have to pull of and re-insert the Ethernet cord off the wall.

Have you tried clean-installing Lion? When I had my MBP, I had a clean install, and never experienced any of the internet connectivity issues.

 

[DeathChill]

This exact same thing (WiFi would connect and everything would check out but no Internet connection) happened to me after I did the Thunderbolt update and then I ran Software Update and the EFI update for my MacBook Pro appears to have fixed it.

 

[AidenShaw]

Have you tried clean-installing Lion? When I had my MBP, I had a clean install, and never experienced any of the internet connectivity issues.

I thought that reformatting the drive to fix software problems was only a Windows 95 issue....

 

[vitzr]

I thought that reformatting the drive to fix software problems was only a Windows 95 issue....

Ten Points... that was so funny it was the best laugh I've had all day, and I've had some good ones.

 

[majkom]

What does it do?

I just updated EFI on my iMac 2011 and dont understand, what it does? Im running on SL, so if I understand it well, this EFI doesnt bring anything to me?

And question, what is the correct procedure of upgrading? I started upgrade, iMac get restarted, update was being installed (there were actaully two upgrades, efi and iphoto, I think) - then I heard deep long "dong" sound (I was in different room), came to iMac, it was restarting, started booting to I believe "safe mode" (there was that line showing process of loading), then again reboot, without showin anything another reboot and finaly it started Mac OS X.. is that ok??? I seems a bit strange to me