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Installing Lion with "no recovery" error
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<blockquote data-quote="surfer106" data-source="post: 1387383" data-attributes="member: 244956"><p><strong>Successful Lion install after "no recovery" message</strong></p><p></p><p>I wanted to share my Lion upgrade experience, because the people in this thread provided some **** good info. Far better than Apple's info. I have an early 2007 MacPro w/Intel core Duo processor and 2 early 2007 17" MacBook Pros. All 3 machines came with Leopard and I upgraded with minimal issues to Snow Leopard and during that process I loaded Boot Camp with Windows XP SP3. All 3 machines have been rock solid and robust in both Mac and Windows mode. Basically, I'd like to change NOTHING on the machines, but I love Mobile Me and I'll will be forced to migrate to iCloud soon enough I bit the bullet and downloaded Lion on my MacPro. I got the "no recovery" message and followed Apple's instructions and loaded LIon on an 80GB external drive. It installed smoothly and I was able to boot from the drive, but that wasn't what I was shooting for. Taking tips from this forum, I unmounted the Windows partition, which sounded promising, but didn't work. Same "no recovery" message during Lion install. Next I created a 1GB partition which seemed to do the job. The Lion install finished and I was stoked. The final test of course, was to fire up windows. My first 3 tries saw the old windows "previous session did not shut down correctly" message. I tried "start windows normally" twice and "safe mode" the 3rd time. All 3 attempts saw a quick flash of a blue screen with error messages I couldn't read in the 1 second it was on the screen and then the machine rebooted and took me back to a normal Lion boot. From Disk Utility, I deleted the 1GB partition I created for the Lion install. Disk Utility took about 10 minutes to resize the volume. When that process was complete, I rebooted in Boot Camp, fired up WIndows and got the same result as my previous 3 tries. Another boot to Lion, then into Disk Utility where I ran "Verify Disk" on the Windows partition which took about 20 minutes and found no errors. Next, I ran "Repair Disk" on the Windows partition which never gave me a "completed" message, so after 15 minutes, I figured it was done. I rebooted in Boot Camp and BAM! Windows was back to life. I guess the repair process did what was needed. I was very pleased to not have to run a Windows recovery or worse yet--a reinstall of Windows. Now, I need to figure out why Lion is not seeing my 4GB of RAM (4@1GB modules in tray 1 that WERE being seen by the machine with Snow Leopard) It sees 2GB for some reason. Sorry for rambling, but I wanted to share my success story. I had low expectations that doing some targeted processes would solve the problem. It never seems to be that easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="surfer106, post: 1387383, member: 244956"] [b]Successful Lion install after "no recovery" message[/b] I wanted to share my Lion upgrade experience, because the people in this thread provided some **** good info. Far better than Apple's info. I have an early 2007 MacPro w/Intel core Duo processor and 2 early 2007 17" MacBook Pros. All 3 machines came with Leopard and I upgraded with minimal issues to Snow Leopard and during that process I loaded Boot Camp with Windows XP SP3. All 3 machines have been rock solid and robust in both Mac and Windows mode. Basically, I'd like to change NOTHING on the machines, but I love Mobile Me and I'll will be forced to migrate to iCloud soon enough I bit the bullet and downloaded Lion on my MacPro. I got the "no recovery" message and followed Apple's instructions and loaded LIon on an 80GB external drive. It installed smoothly and I was able to boot from the drive, but that wasn't what I was shooting for. Taking tips from this forum, I unmounted the Windows partition, which sounded promising, but didn't work. Same "no recovery" message during Lion install. Next I created a 1GB partition which seemed to do the job. The Lion install finished and I was stoked. The final test of course, was to fire up windows. My first 3 tries saw the old windows "previous session did not shut down correctly" message. I tried "start windows normally" twice and "safe mode" the 3rd time. All 3 attempts saw a quick flash of a blue screen with error messages I couldn't read in the 1 second it was on the screen and then the machine rebooted and took me back to a normal Lion boot. From Disk Utility, I deleted the 1GB partition I created for the Lion install. Disk Utility took about 10 minutes to resize the volume. When that process was complete, I rebooted in Boot Camp, fired up WIndows and got the same result as my previous 3 tries. Another boot to Lion, then into Disk Utility where I ran "Verify Disk" on the Windows partition which took about 20 minutes and found no errors. Next, I ran "Repair Disk" on the Windows partition which never gave me a "completed" message, so after 15 minutes, I figured it was done. I rebooted in Boot Camp and BAM! Windows was back to life. I guess the repair process did what was needed. I was very pleased to not have to run a Windows recovery or worse yet--a reinstall of Windows. Now, I need to figure out why Lion is not seeing my 4GB of RAM (4@1GB modules in tray 1 that WERE being seen by the machine with Snow Leopard) It sees 2GB for some reason. Sorry for rambling, but I wanted to share my success story. I had low expectations that doing some targeted processes would solve the problem. It never seems to be that easy. [/QUOTE]
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