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Initially, I created a partition on my boot drive and cloned my working disk onto it. I then updated the main drive to 6.8 in preparation for Lion.
Booting into the 6.8 partition, the App Store prevented the purchase of Lion and (after days of frustration) a borrowed copy refused to get anywhere past the first black boot screen.
I had also installed a new hard drive and cloned 6.8 to it (with no trace of 6.7 on that disk at all) But even booting from the new disk didn't solve any of the problems.
Finally, I worked out that all my efforts were failing because the system - and the App Store - was finding 6.7 - even though I was now booting cleanly into the 6.8 partition or the 6.8 new disk. Once I had cloned 6.8 BACK onto the original partition - things started to go very well.
I've now bought Lion from the App Store.
Booting into the 6.8 partition, the App Store prevented the purchase of Lion and (after days of frustration) a borrowed copy refused to get anywhere past the first black boot screen.
I had also installed a new hard drive and cloned 6.8 to it (with no trace of 6.7 on that disk at all) But even booting from the new disk didn't solve any of the problems.
Finally, I worked out that all my efforts were failing because the system - and the App Store - was finding 6.7 - even though I was now booting cleanly into the 6.8 partition or the 6.8 new disk. Once I had cloned 6.8 BACK onto the original partition - things started to go very well.
I've now bought Lion from the App Store.
