OS X Lions isn't booting properly after installing rEFIt

[sclomps]

A few days ago I installed rEFIt 1.4 because I was going to install Windows 7 on my MBP.
The installation was ok but when I try to boot to Lion (currently the only OS) I get a screen with the Apple logo and a spinning wheel and I doesn't boot. Then I have to hold down the power button until the MBP is powered of and try again to boot and it's only then that I can boot into Lion.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling rEFIt but it didn't work so, what can I do to solve my problem?

Thank you very much for our attention

 

[softwater]

Did you try uninstalling rEfit and installing it again while booted into Snow Leopard rather than Lion?

 

[sclomps]

Did you try uninstalling rEfit and installing it again while booted into Snow Leopard rather than Lion?

I don't have Snow Leopard installed anymore but I think I've solved the problem uninstalling rEFIt.

Thanks for your help

 

[IVoidWarranties]

hmm

Hello all...

Ive been fighting with my MBP for about two weeks now trying to get Lion and Windows 7 to work.. well let me rephrase, getting rEFit to work with lion.. I had it dual booted with rEFit and Snow Leopard for months since i bought it no problem, but i've reformatted at least 10 times now and can't seem to get it working. I get the same apple logo and hanging spinny thing every time. Tried reinstalling rEFit a bunch of times, nothing. I'm new to Mac but have a lot of experience with PC's so if any solutions involve Terminal im all for it but please explain thoroughly Any ideas???

I'm ready to just go back to SL and 7 and say F&%k you lion even though I paid the $30, seems to run slower than SL anyway. I need to get this fixed soon though i need to move to the cloud i use mobileme to keep track of all my calanders for work..

any help greatly appreciated..

 

[pier]

Anyone found a solution to this?

I uninstalled rEFIT and half of the times I can't boot in Lion, or when I can it takes a LOT. Before rEFIT I booted into Lion in about 20-30 seconds, now it takes like 2 minutes.

 

[ewv]

the instructions for manual install worked fine for me without issue

Download the “Mac disk image” or any of the other two binary distributions from the home page. Double-click to mount or unpack them.
Copy the “efi” folder from the rEFIt distribution to the root level of your Mac OS X volume. (Macintosh HD)
Open Terminal and enter the following commands:

cd /efi/refit
./enable.sh

When prompted, enter the password for your user account.