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Installing Lion with "no recovery" error
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<blockquote data-quote="Wenfuli" data-source="post: 1271572" data-attributes="member: 181311"><p>I haven’t seen this solution posted anywhere so I thought I would post it here as a public service. Hopefully it will help someone out who has the same problem I had.</p><p></p><p>I at first could not install Lion on my iMac as the installer told me (and I forget the exact wording of the error message, I’m sorry) that Lion could not be installed as no recovery partition could be made. This would be, I believe, what is now the infamous no recovery scenario, detailed at <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/no-recovery" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/support/no-recovery</a>. That page, however, while it does say that Lion can be installed without the recovery partition, does not detail how to continue the installation. I was not given an option to continue installation without a recovery partition; I was only given the option to restart into my previous Snow Leopard setup.</p><p></p><p>So, after much searching on this forum (so if this is a redundant post and the solution is here, then I guess I didn’t search hard enough) and the Internet and worry that I just spent money on an upgrade that I couldn’t do, I came across this solution: I created an extra partition on my Mac OS X HD. Simple and easy. I don’t know the exact magic number for the size of partition needed, but I remembered seeing the size 60GB somewhere out there, and that is what I used. I created a 60GB partition from my OS X drive and then ran the Lion installer again. That worked, and I am now running Lion on my iMac.</p><p></p><p>If anyone else is having the same problem I had and can’t find the answer elsewhere, I hope this post helps him or her out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wenfuli, post: 1271572, member: 181311"] I haven’t seen this solution posted anywhere so I thought I would post it here as a public service. Hopefully it will help someone out who has the same problem I had. I at first could not install Lion on my iMac as the installer told me (and I forget the exact wording of the error message, I’m sorry) that Lion could not be installed as no recovery partition could be made. This would be, I believe, what is now the infamous no recovery scenario, detailed at [URL="http://www.apple.com/support/no-recovery"]http://www.apple.com/support/no-recovery[/URL]. That page, however, while it does say that Lion can be installed without the recovery partition, does not detail how to continue the installation. I was not given an option to continue installation without a recovery partition; I was only given the option to restart into my previous Snow Leopard setup. So, after much searching on this forum (so if this is a redundant post and the solution is here, then I guess I didn’t search hard enough) and the Internet and worry that I just spent money on an upgrade that I couldn’t do, I came across this solution: I created an extra partition on my Mac OS X HD. Simple and easy. I don’t know the exact magic number for the size of partition needed, but I remembered seeing the size 60GB somewhere out there, and that is what I used. I created a 60GB partition from my OS X drive and then ran the Lion installer again. That worked, and I am now running Lion on my iMac. If anyone else is having the same problem I had and can’t find the answer elsewhere, I hope this post helps him or her out. [/QUOTE]
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