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Never ever EVER EVER AGAIN!!!!!

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Schmange

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Aug 13, 2006
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I download Lion. Install it. Restart.
And .... I get a screen saying I need to restart again.

Numerous tries later I figure I'll try and hold the shift key down.
That seems to kinda work. I get a progress bar and things seem to be loading.

Now... there's a startup screen with three choices.... backup disk.... (??? I don't have a backup disk), and two other choices that don't match my startup drive.

I pick one of em, and my customized desktop, the dock... all my applications and basically everything is gone. 2 of my hard drives won't even show up.
The drive that's working won't let me access anything because I don't have the right 'privelages'.... even though it's my friggin computer....

Long story short.... my entire setup is gone and my computer is screwed until I can find a way to revert back to Snow Leopard.

Advice: DON'T BUY IT!!!!
 
Schmange said:
I download Lion. Install it. Restart.
And .... I get a screen saying I need to restart again.

Numerous tries later I figure I'll try and hold the shift key down.
That seems to kinda work. I get a progress bar and things seem to be loading.

Now... there's a startup screen with three choices.... backup disk.... (??? I don't have a backup disk), and two other choices that don't match my startup drive.

I pick one of em, and my customized desktop, the dock... all my applications and basically everything is gone. 2 of my hard drives won't even show up.
The drive that's working won't let me access anything because I don't have the right 'privelages'.... even though it's my friggin computer....

Long story short.... my entire setup is gone and my computer is screwed until I can find a way to revert back to Snow Leopard.

Advice: DON'T BUY IT!!!!
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use time machine next time.

Feel better?
 
Schmange said:
I download Lion. Install it. Restart.
And .... I get a screen saying I need to restart again.

Numerous tries later I figure I'll try and hold the shift key down.
That seems to kinda work. I get a progress bar and things seem to be loading.

Now... there's a startup screen with three choices.... backup disk.... (??? I don't have a backup disk), and two other choices that don't match my startup drive.

I pick one of em, and my customized desktop, the dock... all my applications and basically everything is gone. 2 of my hard drives won't even show up.
The drive that's working won't let me access anything because I don't have the right 'privelages'.... even though it's my friggin computer....

Long story short.... my entire setup is gone and my computer is screwed until I can find a way to revert back to Snow Leopard.

Advice: DON'T BUY IT!!!!
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Sounds like you booted into recovery.
 
Yeah, always make sure your back-up(s), Time Machine etc. are in order before upgrading to a new OS. I just did a straight upgrade on my iMac and a clean install on my son's iMac (finally got rid of bootcamp, no more Windows, yay!). Both went smoothly and relatively fast (except the clean install since I had to install SL again, first).. But, I had also burned an install DVD and used that. It seemed like a more hassle free way of doing it. Of course I understand that it's not something everyone will want to do.
 
Schmange said:
Advice: DON'T BUY IT!!!!
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Right. Because what you're experiencing HAS TO MEAN everyone else is experiencing the same thing. :roll eyes:

You messed up the installation along the way. Lion has to install. For that to happen it will restart your computer. You don't choose your startup disk. You choose the Lion disk. Since Lion is what you are going to install. Then just follow the prompts.
 
MisterDisney said:
Yeah, always make sure your back-up(s), Time Machine etc. are in order before upgrading to a new OS. I just did a straight upgrade on my iMac and a clean install on my son's iMac (finally got rid of bootcamp, no more Windows, yay!). Both went smoothly and relatively fast (except the clean install since I had to install SL again, first).. But, I had also burned an install DVD and used that. It seemed like a more hassle free way of doing it. Of course I understand that it's not something everyone will want to do.
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If you burned the disk image, you could have booted from that and skip installing SL.

Hugh
 
*LTD* said:
Right. Because what you're experiencing HAS TO MEAN everyone else is experiencing the same thing. :roll eyes:

You messed up the installation along the way. Lion has to install. For that to happen it will restart your computer. You don't choose your startup disk. You choose the Lion disk. Since Lion is what you are going to install. Then just follow the prompts.
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Exactly, look at the Lion rating in the app store. There are many more happy people than not. My install was perfect.
 
my upgrade, clean install, unsupported install, and hackintosh install all went fine.

it's you, sorry dude. :rolleyes:

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Lion has been 100% perfect for me so far. No way i'd go back to Snow Leopard, even as much as i liked it.
 
Lion is not working on you, but it works on so many other users, your problem happened for a reason, u need to find it and fix it instead of telling others to not buy it.
 
Just because something went wrong for you doesn't mean you should make the generalization that it'll go wrong for everyone else.
 
Two friends of mine have Macs that have completely keeled over cos of Lion. BT Home Hubs seem to cause some sort of problem, too.
 
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